Trail & Pleasure |
- Available in many varieties.
- Often built with a lightweight tree.
- Not designed for heavy ranch work.
- Designed with higher and lower cantle, lower cantle being more popular
- Higher cantle: more protection
- Lower cantle: more comfortable
- Rigging is usually in-skirt because of the stress put on the saddle.
- Often equipped with many leather ties to attach your gear.
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16” Billy Cook Trail Saddle bi1783
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- Tree: Trail rawhide covered quarter horse bar & gullet. Special made for trail riders.
- Seat Size: 15" and 16", smooth padded quilt
- Horn: 2 1/4" Pleasure leather covered with BC cap
- Swell: 13" hand stamped basket
- Cantle: 5" leather with Cheyenne roll.
- Rigging: Flat plate rigging with brass hardware.
- Skirts: Artificial wool lined
- Stirrups: 2" Bell leather covered.
- Pattern: Hand Stamped Border
- Special: Chestnut with saddle strings, Clip N Dee.
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All Around Work |
- Flatter seat to allow movement and adjustment of rider.
- Seats are often padded suede.
- Often close contact skirting to help in the leg cues.
- Reinforced rigging for any type of light roping.
- Strong wooden tree.
- Strong horn, made higher for holding on to.
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16” Van Hargis All Around by Billy Cook
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- Tree: All Around, rawhide covered, quarter horse bars
- Seat Size: 15.5" or 16" quilted
- Horn: 2 1/2" short post
- Swell: 13" tooled
- Cantle: 4" leather
- Rigging: Stainless steel dees with cut-away skirt
- Skirts: Artificial wool lining
- Cinch: 27 strand, Mohair
- Stirrups: 2" Bell rawhide laced
- Weight: Approx 32lbs.
- Pattern: Double border & basket hand tooled
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Barrel Racing |
- High cantle with deep pocket seat to hold you in.
- "Hip hugger" ridge around the back of the seat.
- High horn to hold on to.
- Shorter skirts.
- Rigging is simple in-skirt.
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15" Billy Cook Half Breed Barrel Saddle
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- Tree: CJ rawhide covered quarter horse bar & gullet
- Seat Size: 15" padded quilt
- Horn: 1 3/4" with BC cap
- Swell: 13" silver laced
- Cantle: 5" with Cheyenne roll
- Rigging: In skirt.
- Skirts: Artificial wool lined
- Stirrups: 2" bell sewn with stirrup bolt and tooled
- Pattern: Hand tooled half-breed Texas Oak
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Cutting |
- Low cantle, high pommel and horn.
- Flatter seat with slight rise at pommel.
- Jockeys and fenders often made out of rough out leather for better grip.
- Reinforced rigging.
- Back cinch and slim stirrups.
- Leather wear strap between fenders and bottom skirt.
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15" Billy Cook Classic Cutting Saddle
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- Tree: Pro Cutter, rawhide covered quarter horse bars.
- Seat Size: 17"
- Horn: Cutter Style leather covered
- Swell: 13"
- Cantle: 3" leather covered
- Rigging: Dropped Dee in front, Stainless Stee dees
- Skirts: Artificial wool lined
- Stirrups: Oxbow
- Pattern: Basket stamped half-breed, wrong side out seat and fenders
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Endurance |
- Very comfortable seat for long-endurance rides.
- Smaller, lightweight.
- Many strings for attaching gear.
- Most without horn.
- Often with center-fire rigging to keep saddle from tipping.
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16" Big Horn Endurance Saddle with HQ Flex Bars
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- Tree: EquiFit flexible tree. Quarter horse bars. Endurance Style
- Cantle Height: 4"
- Rigging:3/4 position. "Texas" rigging. "Center fire".
- Trim: Brass rings and leather ties. Back brass crupper ring.
- Skirts: 23" x 9" Round, fleeced lined.
- Seat:16" grainout with extra seat padding
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Ranch |
- Big and heavy.
- Slick, hard seat for comfortable day-long use.
- Sturdy tree for rigorous ranch work.
- High cantles and back straps.
- Plate rigging, which is more comfortable for a horse that wears a saddle all day long.
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15.5" 16" High Country Rancher by Billy Cook
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- Tree: Rawhide covered Q.H. bar and gullet
- Seat Size: 15", 15 1/2" and 16", hard seat
- Horn: 2 1/2" Short Post horn with Billy Cook wrap
- Swell: 14" leather covered
- Cantle: 5" rawhide bound.
- Rigging: Flat plate rigging with brass hardware
- Skirts: Artificial wool lined
- Cinch: 27 strand, 6" rear cinch
- Stirrups: 3" Deep Roper Rawhide.
- Pattern: Running W Border
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Reining |
- Close-contact saddle with skirts to allow for rider-horse communication through cues.
- Lower horn and pommel for movement of reins without interference.
- Often with a show-type silver and patterns for the arena.
- Flatter seat for hip movement.
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16" 16.5" Close Contact Reiner by Billy Cook
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- Tree: Classic reiner, rawhide covered'
- Seat Size: 16"
- Horn: Low reinier, leather covered
- Swell: 12" hand tooled
- Cantle: 3"
- Rigging: In skirt close contact
- Skirts: Artificial wool lined
- Cinch: Mohair
- Stirrups: 2" Bell.
- Pattern: Basket and border, hand stamped
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Roping |
- Very sturdy wood tree with bullhide, rawhide, or very strong fiberglass covering.
- Reinforced rigging attached to tree and back strap expected.
- Seats often suede and padded, many times in a pocket seat for good positioning.
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16" Billy Cook Arena Roping Saddle
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- Tree: Rawhide covered Q.H. bars
- Seat Size:16" quilted
- Horn: 2 1/2" short post
- Swell: 13" hand tooled
- Cantle: 4" overlay laced
- Rigging: Full double stainless steel dees
- Skirts: Artificial wool lined semi-square
- Rear Cinch: 21 strand roper
- Stirrups: 3" Roper rawhide laced
- Pattern: Waffle stamped with running W border
- Finish: Oiled
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Show |
- Very detailed tooling.
- Come with silver on the skirts, cantle, pommel, horn, and stirrups.
- Seats are often equitation, which are balanced and have pocket to keep rider in the proper position.
- Turned stirrups.
- Padded suede seats.
- Often close contact with lower pommel and horn for better cues and rein control.
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16" Sterling Silver Plated Billy Cook Show Saddle
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- Tree:Western pleasure rawhide covered quarter horse bar & gullet
- Seat Size: 16" padded seat
- Horn: 2 1/2" california, Leather covered with Billy Cook cap.
- Swell: 13" with swell plates
- Cantle: 3 1/2" with sterling silver plated trim
- Rigging: In skirt
- Skirts: Cut out with Genuine wool lined
- Stirrups: 3" Bell sewn and hand stitched
- Pattern: Full Entz hand tooled
- Additional: This saddle comes with a double ear headstall with Sterling Silver plated ear pieces and bars.
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Training |
- Often with reining saddle type tree.
- Low pommels and cut out skirts for closer contact.
- Many dees and rings to attach training devices or aids.
- Padded suede seats.
- Fenders and jockeys are rough out leather for better grip.
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16" Billy Cook Trainer
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- Tree: Western Pleasure, Rawhide covered with quarter horse bars and gullet
- Cantle Height: 3 1/2" with cheynne role
- Rigging: In Skirt
- Swell Width: 13" with training Dees
- Horn Cap: 2 1/2" Low leather covered
- Skirt: Acrylic wool lining. Cut away
- Pattern: Wrong side out
- Stirrups: 2 1/2" bell rawhide covered
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