Wintec Saddle info please.

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My current saddle doesn't fit anymore since Luke has changed shape quite a bit over the last few months. I was contemplating on buying a Wintec saddle with the cair system and the complete gullet plates. Does anyone have one or used one? If so did you find them any good? Do the gullet plates change the shape of the saddle easily? Any info good or bad on these type of saddles would be great!

Fankoo!!! :D
 
I have a couple of Wintec Isabelle Werth saddles plus the close contact jump and a GP saddle. I like them a lot but you will have some people on here who hate them. My horses are warmblood with a big dash of TB blood. Most of the people who don't like Wintecs seem to have more "cobby" type horses and find they don't fit them properly. I did try the 500 dressage but didn't particularly like it.

Don't waste you money buying a complete set of gullets - you are very unlikely to need them all.
 
i love my wintec saddles. I have a close contact jumping one and the dressage 500 one :) They fit my tb really well. :D

BUT

I have the ones with the cair systems aswell, but have found they are actually really uncomfortable for her straight on her back. They are really hard and unforgiving even though there filled with air.
She has always been quite sensitive though. :/ but now i put a slightly larger gullet and really pad her up with gel pads or sheepskin :)

Now i have a comfortable and happy horse :)
 
I was advised strongly by 2 saddlers not to go for the cair system. I have 3 wintec saddles - the only one i actually like is the isabel dressage saddle - but the gp is the worst saddle for leg position ever - i actually hate sitting in it!
 
Our NF came with a Wintec 2000, and we had the saddler to check it and our other pony's saddle. As it turned out, the other pony - he's an arab x show pony with high withers and a narrow frame - needed a new one but she had nothing secondhand to fit, however she said the Wintec we had would really suit it with a narrower gullet. It fits lovely, far better than it did on the NF (who is quite chunky in shape, taking note of previous poster's comment) and being synthetic is a lot lighter. He's an oldie and he definitely goes better in his 'new' saddle. We bought another saddle for the NF, however I did buy a spare gullet for the Wintec in 'his' size - it is only a few minutes to change the gullet, the reasoning being should his (more expensive) saddle get stolen or ruined, as the NF needs to be ridden more we would have a spare.
 
Thanks for your replies, my boy is a WB and although he looks a bit chunky, he's not at all really. I've only had him for 4 months, he spent a year doing nothing and still being fed so he was a bit of a chubster! But since being in work again he's lost a bit of weight, so now his saddle doesn't fit!! Saddles eh, blooming nightmare hehe!! :D
 
I had a wintec 500 for bella and after 2 months it had caused her back problems and she had to be off for a month and has had physio to help her back and has only come back into work with a new saddle fitted by a different saddler last week. It did put you in a weird position and it did fit her for a bit but she changed shape and it just bounced on her back and none ofnthe gullet things really fitted her right after the other saddler looked at it as it was too small the one she had In and the bigger one was too big and every time the saddler did something to it it made it worse. It had the Cair system in it too. New saddler said that a wintec would never really fit a cob like her :S
Would not recommend it but that's just from my experience with Bella and only one of the wintec saddles so I can't really say much about wintec's generally.
 
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