We have a shire cross gelding for sale who, at this time last year, was exhibiting quite a behavior change! He had been started in dressage a few months earlier and instead of progressing, he was regressing every week he was taken for a lesson....things like chomping the bit, head tossing, becoming hollow not round and forward and his attitude was becoming such that he could no longer be approached with a saddle without flinching and once even rearing when cinched! We at that time had NO clue why he was behaving so poorly all of the sudden, when someone suggested he might have saddle soreness......duh......but we had a "good brand name saddle!" we decided to investigate this anyhow and discovered the Ansür saddle and it's theory.

When the Ansür rep came to our farm to try this new saddle and its idea behind it....the horse's attitude and crappy way of moving just disappeared! Consequently, 3 Ansürs later (one for me and each of my daughters) and one year later, the horse has developed into a beautiful freely moving and talented individual with a great attitude! Reluctantly we have him for sale now because his rider has switched to primarily dressage and this horse loves to jump as well and his calling is eventing...so people came to see him last week and rode him in our treeless equipment first to be fair to him by trying him in what he is accustomed to .... then wanted to switch tack to their 3K custom saddle just to see if there was a difference (as I believe they were skeptical as to the no wood concept)...even we didn't know how he would react to the difference if he would at all...... Needless to say, the old past behavior and poor way of movement returned INSTANTLY!....The buyer and her daughter were mortified, and decided to take it off as we didn't want to keep hurting him. The potential buyer said she was amazed and was going to get an Ansür whether or not she bought our horse. .....Our horse is still for sale, but we now know he sells with one condition......he is ridden in YOUR saddle. PERIOD. HOPE YOU ENJOY HIS RECENT PHOTOS,

JUMPING HAPPILY WITH THE ANSÜR!

I want to thank you again for creating the Ansür jumping saddle. I know people said it couldn't be done, but you've done it! I've been riding my 16.3h Oldenburg gelding in the "pre-adult" hunter ring and the saddle just couldn't be better. We just got back from 4 days at the Thunderbird Show Park, at least 3 classes a day, absolutely no saddle pain anywhere.

With my old "regular" saddle, by the end of a show his back would be sore--not a chance with my Ansür. There are just no pressure points anywhere, no rocking, no bridging -- just a wonderful platform for me.

I've also been using it on a very fussy 16h mare who shows her displeasure at the slightest hint of misfitting saddle. Both the Ansür dressage saddle and the Ansür jumping saddle fit her like a glove and she moves so much better with them.

I'm including a picture from this last show -- please no comments about my equitation! Thank you...Peter R.