Picture #1 is a Billy Cook Flatback Cutter, 16 inch seat, like new used only a couple times. Asking $1050.00, new price $1720.00 The gullet size is 6 1/2 to 6 3/4 hard to measure exactly as described below. the skirt length is 27 inch.
Picture #2 is a new Coriente Roper, 15 inch seat. Full Quarter horse bars, 7 inch gullet. Asking $650.00 The skirt length is 26 inches.
Picture #3 is a nice older Big Horn, P725, 15 inch seat, new strings and stirrups, excellent condition. 6 1/2 to 6 3/4 inch gullet. Asking $450.00
Quarter Horse Bar or Semi Quarter Horse Bar (usually 6 1/2" for semi - 6 3/4" for regular gullet) is by far the most common tree. It is for the medium back, decent wither and often mixed blood descent (1/2 Arab, Appendix or other mixes). Most of our saddles are semi qh/qh bars.
The FQHB tree (usually 7" gullet) is often used for the "Bulldog" Quarter Horse or horses with broad backs and sometimes mutton-withered Quarter Horses.
Arab saddles are for Arabians they have a shorter (usually 6 1/2" - 6 3/4" width) gullet.
Gaited horse bars have a higher gullet for high withered horses.
Haflinger saddles (7 1/2" gullet) are great for Haflingers or short backed mutton withered horses.
Draft Horse bars (8 1/4" gullet), are for the large Draft Horses.
*NOTE - The gullet size is determined from the raw tree. It cannot be accurately measured once the saddle is assembled. There is no industry standard to gullet sizes so a Circle Y qh bar is not necessarily the same as a Big Horn qh bar. Not only is the gullet width a factor but also it's angle and height. In general, a ralide tree has a 6 1/2" gullet width and the wood tree has a 6 3/4" gullet. Often times, changing the thickness of the pad greatly affects how a saddle will fit."
Simco 15 1/2 inch saddle
Above saddle for sale: 15 1/2 inch Simco roping saddle. Good wooden tree. Refurbished with new saddle strings and fleece. Semi-Quarter horse bars. About a 6 1/2 in gullet. $400.00
English Collegiate Close Contact/jumping saddle. 16 1/2 inch seat. 3 girths, one cotton, two leather, 3 saddle pads, one standard white, one red, one quilted black show pad. saddle cover and carry bag. Excellent used condition. $350.00 for the whole package. This saddle has been consigned to R Bar B Tack and Feed store in Topeka, KS.
I also have a couple English black velveteen show helmets, 7 1/4, $ 35.00 each. A pair of rubber English boots, size 8 1/2 or 9. $10.00.
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