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On the 16th of April, which was the 28th anniversary of the launch of the BALANCE Organisation, I used our Facebook Page to reveal a short film that has been made about a research project, comparing the way horses move in their own, conventionally fitted saddles and saddles used as part of a Functional Saddling method, AKA the BALANCE Saddling System.    It seemed important to me, that the results of this project are shared and made public. I recently saw a post on Social Media sharing the results of another project done using computer aided diagnosis of...

This News Item is here to give you up-to-date information on our office opening hours as well as any enforced disruption/closure due to the Corona Virus. Its hard to imagine that we are are well past a full year since the office had to close to normal routine and business, due to Covid 19 lockdowns and restrictions. ☹ In order to keep the business going, we had to make use of the governments 'Business Retention Scheme' This meant that we have been able to get some  some help with part payment of normal...

I have just been looking at other makes and models of saddle online, to get an idea of how the price of BALANCE saddles compares to what else is available.  We have reluctantly had to increase our prices again, after the manufactures have announced  another big, and immediate increase, due to them having to allow for the impact of Brexit and Covid.  In looking around, it made me realise how much fashion is influencing the design of saddles now.   I have to confess to being a bit of an old curmudgeon about the look of saddles.  ...