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Balanced Saddle Fitting at Land Rover Horse of the Year / D26

Balanced Saddle Fitting are your NZ Agents for the premium brands of Albion of England, and Erreplus, from Italy. These are two of the world's finest saddle making brands, with saddles which combine superb craftsmanship and quality with the latest design features to enable superior comfort and balance for both horse and rider. Plus, we are NZ Agents for the versatile and very affordable English range of Geoff Fieldhouse Saddles (GFS), with all 13 styles of new GFS saddles priced under $3500. We are also the stockist of Amerigo/Vega, Pessoa, Trainers, Wintec & Bates, and offer dressage, jump saddles, eventing, GP, and pony saddles.   BSF offers a comprehensive saddle fitting service to ensure the correct fit and balance for...

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Spotted - Chris in the saddle of Don Debonaire

As some of you may know last season didn’t really happen for us with the situation resulting in me needing a surgery a few weeks ago. So being a typical horse person counting down the weeks until I can be back in the saddle after months of not riding and watching out the window to see my very bored equine partner Don Debonaire (Debe) 'redesigning' the paddocks, Chris kindly offered to exercise Debe. So I dug out his riding boots and sent them off before he could change his mind! This morning I managed to get a few snaps of Chris in action which in itself is quite an achievement, as he's not one for photos!  I have to say Chris...

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Dressage Waitemata Championships

Wow, wasn’t last weekend great! Chris and Miriam were so thrilled to see so many amazing clients having a wonderful weekend on their horses, backed up up by some very impressive percentages and placings at the wonderful event run by Dressage Waitemata.   Our Sponsored Rider Angela Lloyd, with a win in Prelim and Champion Small tour-Big tour - Rides in Albion Sam Belsham with a win and placing in Level 2 and Level 3 and Champion Young Rider - Rides in Albion Tania Taylor with wins in Level 4 and Champion Level 4 - Rides in Erreplus Sarah Revis with placings in Level 2 - Rides in Albion Diana Sonnerson with a win and placings in Level 5 - Rides in Erreplus Ashley Webster...

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When the saddle isn't quite what you bought

After a long search Eloise found and bought a second hand Albion SLK saddle in lovely condition, with a wide gullet. She called in Balanced Saddle Fitting, expecting that Rua would need the gullet changed from wide to medium-wide.

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