What size is the Red wintec gullet?

All new saddles are fitted with a medium gullet (black) at point of manufacture. If your gullet has been changed after purchase the colours are sized as follows: Yellow – Narrow, Green – Medium Narrow, Black – Medium, Blue – Medium wide, Red – Wide, and White is Extra wide.

Can you put a red gullet in a Wintec wide saddle?

Well-Known Member. This post is getting ridiculous now! Standard wintec saddles with changeable gullets will allow up to the XW gullet. The old Wintec Wide/cob saddle will allow the 3 purple gullets and the red and white gullets you can use in the standard saddles.

What is a Wintec gullet?

Bates/Wintec Gullets this ingenious device allows you to custom fit your saddle to your horse in just a few minutes. All saddles come fitted with a medium gullet. If you wish to change the fit, then all you have to do is buy a different fitting gullet plate.

What size is purple gullet?

* Size: 1XW (light lilac) 2XW (lilac) 3XW (light purple)

What size is a gullet?

A standard gullet measures 7 inches and is the most common measurement found in saddles described as having “full quarter horse bars”. Any gullet that measures larger than 7 inches is considered to be wide.

What size gullet do Wintec saddles come with?

Most of our saddles will come fitted with a Medium/Black gullet, however High Wither models will come fitted with a Medium Narrow/Green Gullet and Wide saddles will come fitted with a 2XW gullet.

Do all Wintec saddles have a changeable gullet?

All Wintec saddles are designed with an adjustable gullet system. This provides a quick and easy way of adjusting the width of the saddle to fit correctly over the horses withers.

Are wintec and Thorowgood gullets the same?

No absolutely not. They are a different shape, and they wouldn’t connect anyway – also the wintec gullet will cause a flare in the TG and ruin it and cause a pressure point on the horse.

Are all Wintec saddles adjustable?

All Wintec saddles are adjustable and take the Wintec Gullet Bars which are really easy to alter yourself.

Are Thorowgood saddles good?

Had loads and they’re really nice saddles. Well designed, well made and last well. Only issue I’ve had are the older models (griffin etc) had very narrow panels at the back, making their weight bearing surface small and therefore high pressue. The new saddles are much better.

What are the different types of Wintec gullets?

Wintec® and WintecLite WIDE saddles feature the EASY-CHANGE® Gullet System WIDE, these gullets are available in 1XW (light lilac), 2XW (lilac fitted as standard in your new Wintec® or WintecLite WIDE saddle), 3XW (light purple) and 4XW (purple).

Do you need a gullet gauge for a Wintec wide saddle?

* The only gullet system accredited for use in Bates and Wintec WIDE saddles. COMPLETE EASY-CHANGE® WIDE GULLET KITS* contain an EASY-CHANGE® Gullet Gauge, four interchangeable gullet plates (2XW plate is fitted as standard in your saddle) along with fixings for fitting them in your WIDE saddle.

What does Hart stand for in Wintec gullet bars?

In 2020, Wintec renamed their Easy-Change Gullet system, and CAIR panels, and combined them into the HART system. HART stands for Horse and Rider Technology. Wintec a proud to promote HART offering the next level of unparalled comfort, through its protective cushioning with the CAIR panels, adjustability with the Easy Change solution gullet bars.

Which is the best brand of gullet bars?

Wintec is the worlds number one synthetic saddle brand. Their saddles are lightweight, durable, easy to maintain, and adjustable throughout the gullet system and CAIR panels.