Used Imus 4 Beat Gaited Saddle - 16" Standard Flex Tree

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Used Imus 4 Beat Gaited Saddle in great condition.  16" padded seat on their standard flex tree; gullet measures about 6.75" and the skirt is 24.5" long.  Beautiful black leather and unique 4 Beat logo tooling.  The 3 point rigging system allows the tree to more evenly distribute weight and accommodate multiple girth channels.  This saddle features a crupper dee, rear saddle strings, and lots of rings to attach trail gear to.  This is the perfect saddle for all day riding and comfort whether it's in the arena or out on the trails.  More detailed info about the saddle and brand below.

Pheonix Rising Saddlery Description and Info:

Description:

Specially Designed Tree designed for unique forward placement, placing rider over horse’s true center of gravity. Designed for complete freedom of movement and to accommodate the gaited horse’s back

Flexible Tree with leather suspended ground seat to prevent bars from collapsing under rider’s weight. Provides incredibly close feeling to the horse.

Carefully calculated degree of flexibility in the bars offers gaited horses unprecedented comfort and freedom of motion, while still correctly distributing the rider’s weight.

• Our Imus 4-Beat Elite lightweight gaited saddle features:

  • Web suspended, flexible tree bars to offer the horse freedom of motion, and the rider a close “feel” for the horse’s movement
  • Supracor® padding beneath the tree bars to offer unprecedented “fit forgiveness.”  Thanks to this medical grade, resilient and durable padding, our two tree widths (standard and wide) work for over 95% of the horses we fit.
  • Free-swinging, forward-set stirrups to take pressure off rider’s hips, knees and ankles
  • A custom built tree designed to set the rider in a more forward and natural bareback seat position, while allowing the horse freedom of motion through the shoulders and zero pressure on the loins
  • Light-weight, heavy duty “wax wear” denier jockeys and fenders that are extremely durable, water and dirt resistant, easy to maintain, and great looking
  • Top quality leather for the seat and skirt
  • 3/4-fired rigging to keep the saddle in place, front to back, with a single girth, while helping to avoid "girth galls."

About Our Trees:

The tree is designed so that the front edges of the bars of the tree cup around the shoulder with little to no contact. This allows complete freedom of movement for full shoulder rotation without uncomfortable contact with the front edges of the bars of the tree. This unique placement also moves the saddle more forward, preventing interference with the loins (another common area to see pressure points from saddles).

The placement is also designed so that it places the rider directly behind the withers, in what we refer to as the bare-back riding position. This is the position that most rider’s naturally assume when riding bare-back, which is the strongest point of your horse’s back and also where the rider is most naturally in-balance with their horse. (Read more about the rider position in the Imus 4-Beat® and Legacy Saddle HERE)

The foundation of the tree of the Imus 4-Beat® and Legacy Saddle is molded of a specially developed elastomer. This state-of-the-art material has a precisely calculated resilience for ideal weight distribution without pressure points. It has memory to maintain correct shape and retains nails better than wood. The molding process ensures that every part is uniform and symmetrical. Trees are always square, level, and without twist.

Our saddle craftsmen then build in a leather suspended ground seat that is vital to the proper function of the tree. We craft a hand-made leather ground seat with the webbing underneath the ground seat. The leather ground seat allows an even distribution of the rider’s weight over the bars of the tree and allows the tree to flex without collapsing under the rider's weight.

Some companies will put in a hard fiberglass or polymer ground seat to prevent collapsing but doing that interferes with the function and effectiveness of a flexible tree. Also, many suspended seats are built right under the seat leather, which can push you away from your horse's movement, but we place ours so it sits between the ground seat leather and the tree, so your weight causes the seat (and you) to move closer towards your horse. It’s not too thick so ensures a nice close contact with the horse."

References:

• https://phoenixrisingsaddles.com/products/lightweight-gaited-saddles
• https://phoenixrisingsaddles.com/pages/about-our-trees 

Have more questions?  Contact Tack Room Too or visit their FAQ's page here: https://phoenixrisingsaddles.com/pages/imus-4-beat-gaited-saddle-frequently-asked-questions