An all-purpose saddle should have a moderately deep seat to accommodate both dressage and jumping techniques. Find a saddle that is functional for more than one horse discipline with help from the owner of an English tack store in this video on horse supplies.
Hi! I'm Tori Johnson with the Leading Rein in Round Rock, Texas, and we are going to learn how to choose an all-purpose saddle for riding dressage and doing a little bit of jumping. This is an all-purpose saddle. It has a bigger knee roll and a shorter flap so you can do both dressage or jumping in it. It has a moderately deep seat so again, you can still do a little bit of the dressage and still be able to get up, and get out of the saddle for jumping. You want to hop in here for me? There you go. Don't fall off the horse. As you can see with the dressage saddle, her leg is much longer. And when you're in a jumping saddle you want your knee to be up in the knee roll 'cause when you jump you're a little bit more far forward. So you want to make sure that you have enough padding in the knee roll to be able to do that. But you still want the flap to be long enough to where you can do dressage properly. You want four fingers behind and you want to be able to fit one finger up here. So this saddle fits her very, very well, and she would be able to do both dressage and jumping in this one.
