Description

Total elegance meets high performance in an iconic dressage saddle that is state of the art.

The Bates Isabell Icon stands alone in freeing your horse’s full scope of movement and conveying your aids clearly.

  • Winner of Bates Saddles Dealer of the Year in Australia for 20/21, 21/22, 22/23 and 23/24 – Bonnetts

Strengthening your natural position and enhancing your intuitive connection, through saddle innovation and career experience.

Your journey starts here.

For Your Horse – Engineered to adapt with your horse as they move through their body with total comfort, displaying strength and suppleness through their movements.

You will immediately notice your connection is accentuated and your horse more intrinsically responsive to your aids.

” I love the freedom in my horse’s shoulder, to feel in their expression they are comfortable and supple “- Isabell Werth

For You – Beneath elegant lines, the perfect dressage seat and leading saddle innovations can be tailored perfectly for your ridden biomechanics.

When you optimise the saddle for your natural position, your balance and stability are enhanced, you ride in total synergy and your vision comes to life.

“Sitting centrally in the saddle you feel close to your horse, able to sit deeper with exceptional stability to move with the swing of your horse “- Isabell Werth

Isabell Werth’s successes have made her a Icon of our sport with a medal tally that is unlikely to ever be rivalled.

For Isabell, her saddle is her communicator with her horse, a second skin that must deliver connection, rider balance and horse comfort.

Bates Isabell Icon seat has been perfected – Riders will feel closer to their horse than ever before.

An ultra-narrow waist that is low to their horse and just enough support helps the rider to move in synergy and deliver aids cleanly.

Key Product Features include – Perfect dressage seat, Luxe Leather, movable overgirth, Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bar, adjustable Flexibloc system, adjustable Y-girthing system, Bates Synergy Panel, HART.

HART – the Horse and Rider Technology in this saddle is state-of-the-art, giving the unprecedented opportunity to fine-tune the fit for both horse and rider to provide a competitive advantage.

The panel scoops away from the horse’s shoulder with soft curving edges that gradually taper the pressure on to and away from the horse’s muscles, giving greater space around the withers and shoulders.

The narrow and low twist allows the rider to sit deep and with a long leg.

As the saddle is customised specifically to your individual riding position.

  • Saddle Fitting
  • Bonnetts are part of the Bates Dealership Program, a centre of excellence for all Bates, Arena and Wintec Saddles in South Australia.
  • Gary Slack in 2019 was awarded the highest rating Saddlery Brands International Certificate.
  • For completing the Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics for Saddle Fitting Professionals in Australia.
  • In 2019 Gary passed the Saddlery Brands International Dealership program.
  • As a result this makes Gary and Bonnetts a specialist centre of excellence for Bates, Arena and Wintec Saddles.
  • Winner of Bates Saddles Dealer of the Year in Australia for 20/21, 21/22, 22/23 and 23/24
  • Winner of Arena Saddles Dealer of the Year in Australia for 20/21, 21/22, 22/23 and 23/24
  • Winner of Wintec Saddles Dealer of the Year in Australia for 22/23, 23/24 and Runner Up for 20/21 and 21/22
  • Winner of Saddlery Brands International Dealer of the Year in Australia for 20/21, 21/22, 22/23 and 23/24
  • For all saddle fitting options and saddle information please contact Gary on 0419 860 139 or email gary@bonnetts.com.au

We will contact you with every saddle sale to find out the best gullet width for your horse and change to suit free of charge and include an extra gullet plate of your choice.

Features include HART, Easy-change Fit Solution, CAIR Cushion System, Ergonomic Flex Tree, Performance Panel Technology and Comfort seat Technology.

Available in Classic Black and Classic Brown, in sizes 42 cm/16.5″, 43 cm/17″, 44 cm/17.5″ and 46 cm/18″.