Marciante Saddle Company

Welcome to Marciante Saddle Company.

Effective December 20, 2006, we are temporarily closed for relocation. We are moving to the Memphis, TN area. Please check back later for more information.

Only the saddle business, which includes anything we make in our shop, is closed for now since the shop is all boxed up and ready for the move.

The other lines of merchandise are still available for purchase.

Company Profile

Marciante Saddle Company continues to manufacture and sell the made to order, handmade custom built, Marciante Saddles with the same emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction that you have become used to over the past 18 years.

Mr. Marciante has developed a saddle that excels in the Trail and Endurance field. He has been manufacturing his saddles for over 18 years and has developed a reputation in the equestrian industry as having designed a saddle that is comfortable, reliable and of the highest quality available. You will find his saddles all over the world. He has been able to keep the costs down by selling direct to the public and cutting out the middle man. The saddles are not mass produced but made one at a time per your order.

The Marciante Trail and Endurance Saddle is a truly all purpose saddle with a perfectly balanced ride. It has been ridden in many 50 and 100 mile races and on trail rides in all types of terrain and weather all across the United States, including some foreign countries and is extremely comfortable for both horse and rider.

He has taken the best features from every saddle he has ever ridden and put them into one saddle. It starts with the tree. It is a Western tree made by Ralide with a few modifications. The seat is 15" with a 3" cantle. This is average and fits most people. There is 1/4" of padding between the leather and the tree. This helps to make the seat more comfortable. There are no high spots in the saddle seat. Your weight is distributed evenly across the saddle seat to your thighs. Distributing your weight allows for a more comfortable saddle. The bars are 20" long, that is the reason he likes the Western style tree. It is longer than the Australian and most English saddles, so your weight is distributed over more of the horse's back. The tree has high and wide wither clearance and the tips, front and rear, have been flared out so they cannot dig into the horse's shoulder or back.

You can order the saddles with or without a saddle horn.

Most Western saddles have sheepskin under the saddle for padding. The sheepskin wears down and mats down rapidly. That's why he likes the English idea of padding and took it one step further. The padding he uses absorbs shock and conforms to the little idiosyncrasies all horses backs have and when the saddle is removed it returns to its original shape, ready for the next horse. He wrapped all this in a rough-out leather so your pad does not slip. It works great! The saddle is designed to have extremely close contact to the horse.

The rigging is attached to the tree and not the leather, because leather stretches. The rigging is attached across the front, middle and rear of the tree with heavy gauge nylon, for strength and easy maintenance. It is also lowered and out of the way of your knees and is adjustable to the front and to the rear, to fit any horse and any style of riding.

Heavy gauge nylon attaches the stirrups to the tree, directly under you for a perfectly balanced ride. The nylon gives you the free movement like English leathers, but you have the comfort of the Western fenders. And of course, they are fully adjustable with Blevin buckles. Special racing fenders are also available.

The saddle comes in your choice of black, medium brown or dark brown leather, with 6 D-rings, 6 latigo straps, 2 breast collar D-rings, off-strap, cinch rings and nylon tie straps and stirrups. Padded stirrups are also available. Cinch not included.

Contact Information

The new location of the Marciante Saddle Company will be in Tennessee. Please use the information below to contact us. You can always call or email us for more information.

Thank you for dropping by,

Dale, Bobbi and Brie McFarland

Telephone

1-901-377-9589

FAX

1-901-377-9589

Postal address

Arlington, TN 38002

Electronic mail

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We now accept most major credit cards. Call for more information.

1-901-377-9589

Send mail to  mailto:dale_mc@msn.com with questions or comments about this web site.
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