Total elegance meets high performance in an iconic dressage saddle that is state of the art. The Bates Isabell Icon stands alone in freeing your horse’s full scope of movement and conveying your aids clearly. Strengthening your natural position and enhancing your intuitive connection, through saddle innovation and career experience. Your journey starts here.

For you
Beneath elegant lines, the perfect dressage seat and leading saddle innovations can be tailored perfectly for your ridden biomechanics. When you optimise the saddle for your natural position,
your balance and stability are enhanced, you ride in total synergy and your vision comes to life.

“Sitting centrally in the saddle you feel close to your horse, able to sit deeper with exceptional stability to move with the swing of your horse.” Isabell Werth

For your horse
Engineered to adapt with your horse as they move through their body with total comfort, displaying strength and suppleness through their movements.
You will immediately notice your connection is accentuated and your horse more intrinsically responsive to your aids.

“I love to see the freedom in my horse’s shoulder, to feel in their expression they are comfortable and supple. The adjustability of my saddle together with CAIR has kept so many of my horses so comfortable over so many years.” Isabell Werth

Bates SynergyPanel: the ultimate for close contact dressage performance

Exclusive to Bates Saddles. Ultra-fine and low profile, this panel sculpts away from your horse’s shoulder and transitions contact seamlessly and gradually on to your horse’s body, freeing their shoulder and achieving optimal space around the wither. The connection between you and your horse is accentuated through channelling your leg with seamless contact to let your horse feel your aids as they have never before. Your horse will instantly respond to the soft cushioning of the CAIR Cushion System, which lets them extend, lift and round to their fullest potential.

Fairfax World Class Monoflap Dressage

Developed to maximise synchronicity. Configuration of the seat & knee block enables the rider to feel more 'at one' with their horse

• Seat is shaped for ultimate closeness and balance.
• Optimal level of rider support, without restriction.
• Seven physique options to suit individual rider anatomy.
• Girthing options to optimise stability.
• Changeable gullet bar.
• Available in 'Croc' and 'Plain' Trim
• 17" seat available with standard or long flap
• 17.5" seat available with petite, standard or long flap
• 18" seat available with petite or standard flap
• Option of having the Elias panel on the World Class saddle for a deeper rear, and slim front, gussets for a horse with 'uphill' conformation.

This saddle was designed and tested using pressure mapping and gait analysis.

 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

For riders who want the professional feel of a fully hide-covered monoflap saddle, but with a comfortable mid seat and smaller supportive block.

Available in black only this saddle will suit you if you are looking for the professional close-contact feel of a monoflap design.

• Hide-covered flap for a true luxurious look and feel.
• Patent welt and piping add luxurious finishing touches.
• A true dressage seat (but not too forward).
• Surface mounted block offers leg support without restriction
• Unique monoflap girthing options help the saddle fitter achieve optimum stability.

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

The new GG Extra was developed in cooperation with master rider and Passier partner Ingrid Klimke. The new, modern look turns this popular model into a new highlight. The comfortable deep seat, the anatomical thigh supports and the soft knee inserts with the convenient quilting enable direct contact with the horse. The design inset with alternative stirrup strap lead makes this saddle a true eye-catcher! The freedom panels ensure an optimum fit to the horse's back. Team Klimke – now also in the dressage arena powered by Passier!

Fairfax Cara Monoflap Saddle

Specifically to suit the 'uphill' conformation of the Friesian breed and baroque types such as Andalusians, Lipizzaners and Lusitanos.

• Luxurious, super-grippy Italian calf leather
• Croc trim on the forepiece, flap and cantle
• Deep rear, and slim front, gussets to provide a perfectly balanced platform for the rider on an 'uphill' horse
• Surface-mounted thigh block gives the experienced rider support without restricting their position (same block as the Petrus and Stella)
• Patented Performance Panel is proven to help the horse move more freely, improving extension, flexion and gait symmetry
• Panel is lined with pressure relieving Prolite and flocked with pure English wool
• Use the shoulder blocks to fine tune the amount of leg support the rider requires
• Customise the blocks to allow the rider to sit squarely on a horse with asymmetrical shoulders

Colour: black
Trim: croc
Sizes: 17”, 17½”, 18” (7 seat and flap size combinations)

Fairfax Stella Monoflap Dressage

The same tree, seat and panel as the Petrus Monoflap but with stylish design touches and snake print embellishment.

• Luxurious, super-grippy Italian calf leather
• Snakeskin print on the cantle, forepiece, and stirrup loop
• Grey stitching on the flaps and welting on the seat
• Surface-mounted thigh block gives the experienced rider support without restricting their position
• Patented Performance Panel proven to help the horse move more freely, improving extension, flexion and gait symmetry
• Panel is lined with pressure relieving Prolite and flocked with pure English wool
• Use the shoulder blocks to fine tune the amount of leg support the rider requires
• Customise the blocks to allow the rider to sit squarely on a horse with asymmetrical

Colour: black
Trim: snakeskin
Sizes: 16½” 17”, 17½”, 18” (10 seat and flap size combinations)

Prestige X-D1 K Dressage| Monoflap

This saddle offers comfort and close contact guaranteeing the best freedom of movement to the horse.The narrow and deep twist makes the rider closer to the horse for a winning performance. The fit is outstanding for short and muscular horses, also thanks to the panels that are shaved in the front part to give the maximum freedom to the shoulders. The saddle comes with the F23.0 - Trapezium Pad for a perfect fit.

• Elastic front girth straps
• Shoulder free panels
• Ideal saddle for short and muscular horses
• Deep and comfortable seat

Presitge X-D2 K Dressage Saddle| Monoflap

The saddle has a “unisex” tree, the first tree that makes it very comfortable for both male and female riders. It is offered with a stitching pattern and patent leather inserts that visually enhance the special features of this model (“pure” version, with no stitching and patent leather inserts on the cantle, available upon request). The technical features and the feeling for the rider remain unchanged:
the back of the seat towards the cantle is significantly wider when compared to traditional Dressage saddles; the tree contains two enlarged membranes, obtained by applying the OTI (“Over Tree Injection”) technological procedure. The blocks are anatomically shaped for the horse. The front girth straps are secured using a heavy duty elastic, while the rear ones determine the balance of the saddle. The panels are shaped in the front to give an unmatched freedom to the shoulders. The panels are also wider along their entire length to distribute the weight of the rider more evenly in a reduced space. The three withers sizes fit all horses. The saddle must be used with the 3F021 – Trapezium Pad for a perfect fit.

Plus
1. SHOULDER FREE PANELS
2. ELASTIC FRONT GIRTH STRAPS
3. OPTICAL DETAILS

Prestige offer a wide range of custom fit options call 0208 308 0500 for more details and questions.

 

**May show some minor signs of wear.  For further details please contact the office. 02083080500**

Total elegance meets high performance in an iconic dressage saddle that is state of the art. The Bates Isabell Icon stands alone in freeing your horse’s full scope of movement and conveying your aids clearly. Strengthening your natural position and enhancing your intuitive connection, through saddle innovation and career experience. Your journey starts here.

For you
Beneath elegant lines, the perfect dressage seat and leading saddle innovations can be tailored perfectly for your ridden biomechanics. When you optimise the saddle for your natural position,
your balance and stability are enhanced, you ride in total synergy and your vision comes to life.

“Sitting centrally in the saddle you feel close to your horse, able to sit deeper with exceptional stability to move with the swing of your horse.” Isabell Werth

For your horse
Engineered to adapt with your horse as they move through their body with total comfort, displaying strength and suppleness through their movements.
You will immediately notice your connection is accentuated and your horse more intrinsically responsive to your aids.

“I love to see the freedom in my horse’s shoulder, to feel in their expression they are comfortable and supple. The adjustability of my saddle together with CAIR has kept so many of my horses so comfortable over so many years.” Isabell Werth

Bates SynergyPanel: the ultimate for close contact dressage performance

Exclusive to Bates Saddles. Ultra-fine and low profile, this panel sculpts away from your horse’s shoulder and transitions contact seamlessly and gradually on to your horse’s body, freeing their shoulder and achieving optimal space around the wither. The connection between you and your horse is accentuated through channelling your leg with seamless contact to let your horse feel your aids as they have never before. Your horse will instantly respond to the soft cushioning of the CAIR Cushion System, which lets them extend, lift and round to their fullest potential.

Albion Fabrento Dressage Saddle

Designed for modern dressage competition and sports horses the Albion Fabrento is a beautifully styled, quality, mono-flap saddle with serious performance potential. After careful bio-mechanical study of horse and rider the Fabrento places the rider in the perfect position to apply all aids effectively from a secure central position. The tapered knee roll provides support without restriction and is particularly useful for riders with long legs riding shorter backed horses. 

The Albion Fabrento is built on an all new Adjusta-Tree with a more open head and lower profile suiting higher, longer withered horses and the width can be adjusted by a trained saddle fitter to suit each individual. This unique, ergonomic tree is ideal for the modern sports horse and ensures maximum shoulder rotation whilst reducing loin pressure, allowing a greater freedom of movement

 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

Albion SLK Dressage Saddle

 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

Arena Cob Dressage Saddle

**May show some minor signs of wear.  For further details please contact the office. 02083080500**

Finding a beautiful saddle to suit your cob dressage horse has never been easier. Designed with this special conformation* in mind, the Arena Cob Dressage saddle will help you and your horse to move together in harmony. In training and competition, you will feel close through your seat and leg for delivery of your aids. Ride with confidence as adjustable features ensure your horse is as comfortable as you are and free to move. 

If you need a different gullet plate to go in your saddle you can find them here.

Arena Dressage Saddle

**May show some minor signs of wear.  For further details please contact the office. 02083080500**

Beautifully balanced and well crafted, the Arena Dressage saddle will help you and your horse to move together in harmony. In training and competition, you will feel close through your seat and leg for delivery of your aids. Ride with confidence as adjustable features ensure your horse is as comfortable as you are and free to move. 

If you need a different gullet plate to go in your saddle you can find them here.

Arena Iberian Dressage Saddle

Beautifully balanced and well crafted, the Arena Iberian Dressage saddle will help you and your horse move together in perfect harmony. In training and competition, you will enjoy the close contact feeling, enabling you and your horse to perform dressage movements in rhythmic unison. Ride with confidence as adjustable features ensure your horse is as comfortable as you are and free to move.
 

Arena Pony Dressage Saddle

**May show some minor signs of wear.  For further details please contact the office. 02083080500**

Beautifully balanced and well crafted, the Arena Dressage saddle will help you and your horse to move together in harmony. In training and competition, you will feel close through your seat and leg for delivery of your aids. Ride with confidence as adjustable features ensure your horse is as comfortable as you are and free to move. 

If you need a different gullet plate to go in your saddle you can find them here.

Bates Artiste Dressage Saddle

• The artistry… this saddle celebrates the art of dressage – the sculpted performance conducted by horse and rider in choreographing every movement with emotion, power, and grace.
• The perfect fit… achieve the perfect fit for your horse and generate power and depth of expression that you will never have felt before.
• The stability… find stability with the perfect balance that will grant you a stillness, independence of seat, and a lightness of hand and leg that will allow you to dance across your stage with ease.
• The connection… feel ultimate sensitivity, driving a connection that enables the subtlest finesse in your aids as you take the spotlight in the main arena.

N.B Brown is a special order colour and is expected to take roughly 12 weeks for delivery Please click here to see Terms & Conditions regarding Special Orders

Bates Wide Dressage Deep Seat 

**May show some minor signs of wear.  For further details please contact the office. 02083080500**

The Bates WIDE Dressage saddle is a cutting edge dressage saddle specially designed for the wider horse. Riders will experience the performance-driven deeper seat featuring new comfort seat technology delivering an unsurpassed level of comfort and contact. The ultra-narrow waist enables the rider to sit deeper into the saddle to support a balanced and central position. For their WIDE horse, the Y-Girthing system, wide chamber and broad panels offer increased saddle stability for improved comfort. 

Featuring world-leading performance systems, the CAIR Cushion System and the EASY-CHANGE Fit Solution to offer the ultimate in ease of fitting and comfort for your horse. These revolutionary systems work together to provide a custom fit and a fluid cushioning to hug your horse’s individual conformation for even weight distribution over the entire length of the panel.

Erreplus Connect Monoflap Dressage

The Connect features a completely new tree with a flat profile and longer tree points to ensure greater support and balance of the saddle. This model has been designed and made to fit modern horses with a compact and well-muscled shape and is also warmly recommended for short backs. 

Its soft seat has been designed to guarantee maximum comfort, giving a close contact feeling. With a narrow twist and a seat made of technical polyurethane with a thinned shape, it ensures an incredible feeling of close contact while maintaining great comfort. Also, for this particular model there is only one type of seat, so it will not be possible to choose an open or deep seat.

Another innovation concerns the flaps: made entirely of doubled bull leather, they ensure excellent contact and greater softness. In addition to the different length options, it will be possible to have 3 different projections in a single flap; this adjustment has to be done by our dealers or fitters by changing only one screw in the insertion holes.

The three types of projection will be the following:
- Forward (+ 2cm), to guarantee more freedom to the knee and thigh support 
- Standard, for a more vertical posture 
- Drawback (-2cm) for greater support and knee contact.

The front panels attachment to flaps is in Velcro, this will allow a correct adherence between the two components and will avoid the formation of folds and wrinkles during the various projection changes. 

The Connect has long, ergonomically shaped knee rolls. Composed of a double-density technical material, they provide softness and comfort in the area of contact with the rider’s leg and solid support on the outer surface. 

The panels have a unique shape, completely different from any other model. At the front, its innovative ergonomic shape perfectly fits both muscular backs and pronounced withers, combining in a single panel the freedom of the shoulders of an SL and the support of a traditional panel. Thanks to a larger surface laying on the trapezius area and thinner edges, this panel doesn’t limit the freedom of movement of the shoulders and, at the same time, helps the balance of the saddle. Thanks to panels with gusset will also be possible to request additional flocking not only in the rear area but also in the frontal one, in case of particularly prominent withers or exposed spines.

This model is available only with this type of panel, so it will not be possible to choose it in the standard or SL version

The trees are made from a fibre-reinforced material and the width can be adjusted using a specially designed heat machine. They can usually be adjusted to a couple of centimetres narrower or wider than their manufactured width. This process does require the saddle to be brought in to the workshop.

Please note that these saddles are not available for export 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

Developed on our flat dressage tree, the Connect WR Dressage Saddle has some exciting Improvements and innovations: 

A completely new profile rubber seat, specially shaped to provide superb shock absorption for the rider and to maximise the feeling of close contact.

After a year of research and development, the tree points have been completely re-designed by introducing a triangle-shaped side-reinforcement, attached between the tree points and the middle of the tree.  This ensures greater support, stability and balance of the saddle and reduces the pressure from the tree points on the withers and trapezius muscles.
The new-style panels are all thinner compared to those in our other saddle models, and are available in the following three configurations: 
Classic Connect panels:  also available in +1 and +2 behind

Anatomic panels: cut back in the front and regular in length on the back.  Also available in +1 and +2 behind.
Compact panels: for horses with a short back line, cut back in the front and shorter in length on the back.  These panels are really aimed at professional riders.  They are only available in the thin standard and Z version since they are particularly suited to flat backed horses.

The WR Connect has new skirts and flaps, where additional padding has been introduced, to ensure maximum comfort to the rider

The WR Connect is available with the following projections: DD/D/B/F.  They can be adjusted in a second moment, only by our dealers.
Available in mono flap and double flap

- Forward (+ 2cm), to guarantee more freedom to the knee and thigh support 
- Standard
- Drawback (-2cm) for greater support and knee contact.
- Double Drawback (-4cm) for a more vertical position

The trees are made from a fibre-reinforced material and the width can be adjusted using a specially designed heat machine. They can usually be adjusted to a couple of centimetres narrower or wider than their manufactured width. This process does require the saddle to be brought in to the workshop.

Please note that these saddles are not available for export 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

 

Erreplus Impulse DC Dressage Saddle

The latest addition to the Erreplus family features a completely new tree with a flat profile. This model has been designed and made to fit modern horses with a compact and well-muscled shape and is also warmly recommended for short backs. 

Its soft seat has been designed to guarantee maximum comfort, giving a close contact feeling. Also, for this particular model there is only one type of seat, so it will not be possible to order an open or deep seat.

Another innovation concerns the flaps: made entirely of doubled bull leather, they ensure excellent contact and greater softness. In addition to the different length options, it will be possible to have 3 different projections in a single flap; this adjustment has to be done by our dealers or fitters by changing only one screw in the insertion holes.

The three types of projection will be the following:
- Forward (+ 2cm): to guarantee more freedom to the knee and thigh support 
- Standard: for a more vertical posture 
- Drawback (-2cm): for greater support and knee contact

The front panels attachment to flaps is in Velcro, this will allow a correct adherence between the two components and will avoid the formation of folds and wrinkles during the various projection changes. 

Only one set of rolls is provided: long and ergonomically shaped to provide comfort and support at the same time. Moreover, the attachment of the knee rolls is in Velcro; this will allow the rider to customise the position according to his or her riding style. 

The panels have a unique shape, completely different from the classical model. At the front, its innovative ergonomic shape perfectly fits both muscular backs and pronounced withers, combining in a single panel the shoulders freedom of an SL and the support of a traditional panel. Thanks to a larger surface laying on the trapezius area and thinner edges, this panel doesn’t limit the freedom of movement of the shoulders and, at the same time, helps the balance of the saddle. Thanks to panels with gusset will also be possible to request additional flocking not only in the rear area but also in the frontal one, in case of particularly prominent withers or exposed spines.

The trees are made from a fibre-reinforced material and the width can be adjusted using a specially designed heat machine. They can usually be adjusted to a couple of centimetres narrower or wider than their manufactured width. This process does require the saddle to be brought in to the workshop.

This model is available only with this type of panel, so it will not be possible to order it in the standard or SL version

Please note that these saddles are not available for export 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK

Erreplus Impulse Monoflap DX Dressage Saddle 

The latest addition to the Erreplus family features a completely new tree with a flat profile. This model has been designed and made to fit modern horses with a compact and well-muscled shape and is also warmly recommended for short backs.

Its soft seat has been designed to guarantee maximum comfort, giving a close contact feeling. Also, for this particular model there is only one type of seat, so it will not be possible to order an open or deep seat.

Another innovation concerns the flaps: made entirely of doubled bull leather, they ensure excellent contact and greater softness. In addition to the different length options, it will be possible to have 3 different projections in a single flap; this adjustment has to be done by our dealers or fitters by changing only one screw in the insertion holes.

The three types of projection will be the following:
- Forward (+ 2cm), to guarantee more freedom to the knee and thigh support
- Standard, for a more vertical posture
- Drawback (-2cm) for greater support and knee contact.

The front panels attachment to flaps is in Velcro, this will allow a correct adherence between the two components and will avoid the formation of folds and wrinkles during the various projection changes.

The Impulse Mono has long, ergonomically shaped knee rolls. Composed of a double-density technical material, they provide softness and comfort in the area of contact with the rider’s leg and solid support on the outer surface.

The panels have a unique shape, completely different from the classical model. At the front, its innovative ergonomic shape perfectly fits both muscular backs and pronounced withers, combining in a single panel the freedom of the shoulders of an SL and the support of a traditional panel. Thanks to a larger surface laying on the trapezius area and thinner edges, this panel doesn’t limit the freedom of movement of the shoulders and, at the same time, helps the balance of the saddle. Thanks to panels with gusset will also be possible to request additional flocking not only in the rear area but also in the frontal one, in case of particularly prominent withers or exposed spines.

The trees are made from a fibre-reinforced material and the width can be adjusted using a specially designed heat machine. They can usually be adjusted to a couple of centimetres narrower or wider than their manufactured width. This process does require the saddle to be brought in to the workshop.

This model is available only with this type of panel, so it will not be possible to order it in the standard or SL version

Please note that these saddles are not available for export 

Please note - this product is not available for export outside of the UK