Used Saddle Pick of the Week: 16" Crates Reining Saddle

The "Used Saddle Pick of the Week"

Every week we scour the Internet searching for a particularly juicy bargain on a high quality used western saddle and feature it here on the WSG Saddle Blog. The saddles featured are listed for sale on ebay as of the date of the post.

The Western Saddle Guide is not the seller of the saddles featured and does not make any representations about them. We encourage all potential buyers to do their own due diligence on the seller and the saddle before purchasing.

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This week we've found an almost-new Crates reining saddle that is a real dandy. I'm a big fan of Crates saddles. I own one myself and I think they're one of the best production saddle brands out there. They make nice, solid saddles.

This week's saddle has a 16inch suede seat, 6 5/8 gullet (full QH bars), with basket weave tooling on parts of the the fenders, skirts, jockeys, fork and cantle.

Reiners are close contact saddles that have become popular for use as overall training saddles and for trail riding. They're not suitable, however, as a heavy duty "using" saddle.

In the photo you can see how nicely balanced this saddle is - a level seat with the stirrups hanging straight down. This saddle has so few rides in it that it's basically a new saddle.

We present the Saddle Blog's Used Saddle of the Week:

16" Crates Reining Saddle Saddle

Check out other Crates Saddles for sale in our tack shop.