The Bates Caprilli Close Contact Classic has Heritage Leather with Luxe Leather seat and knee inserts. It offers a supportive seat to ensure safe, comfortable landings. Whether commencing your jumping career or competing at the highest level, you will enjoy exceptional balance and comfort. Broad and tapered panels offer tremendous support for your horse’s back, enabling greater freedom of movement.

What our fitters think: “One of my favourite Bates saddle models is the Caprilli jump. The Adjustability and luxury style of this saddle with also the flap cut options (standard and forward cut) make this saddle such a fantastic saddle for the price. Its perfectly multi-purpose ideal for flatwork riding, jumping, cross country/eventing, dressage and still looks like a technical saddle.” - Sarah Parry

Features:

• EASY-CHANGE solution fit – Together the EASY-CHANGE®Gullet System and the EASY-CHANGE® Riser System offer a total fitting solution for your horse’s absolute comfort and your peace of mind. All adjustments are measurable, symmetrical and completely reversible, ensuring total confidence in your ability to custom fit your saddle to your horse’s changing shape for optimal comfort and performance. It’s EASY!
• Adjustable Flexibloc system – The Bates saddles adjustable flexibloc system does exactly what it says on the tin. They are adjustable knee blocks designed so the rider can position them for the best optimum performance aiding.
• Ergonomic Stirrup Bar - The design registered stirrup bar removes at least one thickness of leather from under the rider's thigh, ensuring even closer contact and maximising rider comfort. The unique shaping offers secure attachment of their stirrup leather, while enabling the leather to come free if required during a fall.

Heritage leather upholds the traditional European practices of natural oil and wax tanning. The high oil and wax content of this performance leather ensures optimum suppleness and enhanced rider grip. The heritage leather is a smooth finish more "traditional" flap leather type you would see on many saddles. This leather is used on many of the Bates performance saddle range.

Luxe Leather - Luxe Leather is hand-selected from the finest calf skin leather in the world and meticulously cared for throughout its specialised tanning process. Leading to an ultra-soft feel and level of grip to meet the unique demands of a luxury equestrian saddle. Leather is a natural product (a skin) and as such may show some minor marks, scars or colour variations within the Luxe Leather are not a fault and add to the individual character of any new Bates Luxe Leather saddle.

Please note: this saddle is NEW TO ORDER we do not hold stocks of new saddles and lead times vary depending on brand