At what point does guadiness, loose all accountability? lol?

Question

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e208/mysiguy/IM000845.jpg

So would you show in this? lol

I bought it and am shipping it to PH lol j/kkkk , if i had that kinda dough, a saddle would be the last thing I bought!!

Ty for the spelling help on that, I really had no clue how to spell it!!! :)

Answer 1

LMAO! Omg Mulereiner, you just MADE my day!

Ahahahahahahaaa! Ahahahahahahahahha!

I would totally show in that. Why? Because I ride a black 13.3 pony, I suck at western riding and it would be my way of poking good natured fun at some of the western pleasure fashion out there.

My good friend who shows western pleasure and has excellent taste would probably beat me with a stick, but the potential for humour would be too hard to pass up.

OMG I want that saddle.

EDIT: 12 g? Ok, I'm going to attach glow in the dark pirate heads to my Wintec western. But if someone gave it to me, I'd totally show in it.

Answer 2

I bet your mule would look darned cute in that saddle! Maybe order two, and then you can have a matching set for your boys.
It looks like the saddle itself is well made, nicely tooled and very sharp looking. But someone obviously wanted something very unique (Isn't that a nice word for it?) and individual, I'm assuming this was custom made for them since I doubt there would be much of a market for it otherwise. Perhaps they fancy themselves a real swashbuckling man or perhaps they actually have a part in the entertainment industry or such.
And No, I would never, ever show in that saddle. Unless I could screw off the pirate thingys and add something a wee bit more discrete.
And I think gaudy is how you spell it, not guady. Perhaps better yet it is "God-EEEEE"!

Answer 3

I show Western Pleasure and I am sorry to say that this (like a lot of other things you see in the pleasure classes) is just TACKY. This is the hot new trend in cowboy fashion this week. But when it goes out of style (next week) you may have a hard time getting rid of it. I have seen saddles like this cost $15,000. More than I paid for my first car. And why? It will not make your horse show any better. Just to be able to say i paid a huge some of money for my saddle? I have seen jackets that weigh nearly 15 pounds just from the crystals and sequins. And they are so blinding that you cannot see the numbers. My thought on this has always been you are trying to dazzle the judges so that they will not see your flaws (doesn't work). Or the added weight and the shame of having to carry something this awful in public will make your horse put his head down and go slow. I do have some of the "glittery" shirts and I do have a silver saddle. But they are tasteful and will be in style forever. Not gaudy like this saddle disaster. In fact, at our last show, a bunch of us rode on our working saddles to protest this very kind of junk. You are suppose to be judged on your horse, not how much silver your saddle has.

Answer 4

OMG where did you find that?? Ya know, WP people love this stuff. The more crap on the saddle the better. They want the judge to see the saddle so he doesn't see the way the horse moves! I am anti-WP, yes I am. Those horses don't move naturally. But that is another soap box for later.

So, this saddle is CRAZY! And there probably are some barrel racers that would ride in a Barrel saddle that looked like that, shoot, they are putting Zebras and Ostriches on them, why not skulls! LOL Now that I have put some thought into it, if it was a barrel saddle and didn't cost 2 grand, I might just ride it to make everyone go EEWWWW! hahahaha

EDIT: PH your funny!!

Answer 5

That's just vile. I have principles and I refuse to use any thing with bling or strange colors. While I doubt any horse would be offended on a personal level by the use of a mint green halter or pink fly mask, I'd know - that thing (it's not a saddle) falls into the same catagory.

Edit - So tell us - did you buy it?

Answer 6

I would not show my face in this...or my rump.

If the owner of this saddle were asking on Y/A why their horse was hard to catch, my answer would be "Well...have you LOOKED at your saddle?"

And I do like the bling in general but even this, I think crosses the line between "Boy, does she like the bling" and "Do you use a horse with that saddle in your act at the topless bar?"

I think the tooling is fine with a little bling...and the skulls would look ok on a saddle with less tooling. A smooth black perhaps, for the Goth cowgirl.

But as it is...for me at least...as they say on "Design Star:"

"Your show has been cancelled."

Answer 7

Let's see, what's that old saying? "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull--it"

I think that anyone that would show in this saddle has long since passed the point of any accountability, sensibility and even the point of showing completely. This just HAS to be an example of workmanship, surely they don't expect to sell the saddle to anyone...In the first place, anyone that could afford this saddle could afford a good trainer, and that good trainer would be screaming at the top of their lungs to put their money back in their pocket.

Answer 8

I copied and enlarged the picture to be able to see the price tag,at $12,295 I think I can find a better way of spending it,like,say,buying a Freisian maybe?lol



Wait,I just had an idea,buy it,and arrange it so that the son couldn't show or be seen with anything else when he's miss-behaving,LMAO

Answer 9

Does that tag say 18,000? You could get a car for that much. I can only imagine what would happen when the other horses in the arena see how the light reflects off that saddle - it could cause mass hysteria!

Answer 10

Did you get a picture of the matching headstall, reins, and breastcollar? How many batteries does it take?
Thanks for sharing, but people would really be razzinMYa$$ if I showed up with that!