Signature by Antares

For more than 20 years now, Antarès places its skills at the service of horses and riders. Established in Saintes, France, the custom saddles workshop houses more than 45 saddlers. Antarès is committed to protect traditional crafting, but also to pass on the French know how and legacy. Therefore, we keep (and will always keep) producing our saddles in France, by hand, according to our values.

Note: Sometimes leather can change color after oiling, sometimes the pictures on our site may show an oiled color or unoiled.

Since we do allow saddle trials it is possible our new and demo saddles can have some slight marking from trials. Slight wear marks/rubs can show where the girth does up on the billets, where the billet gaurd and girth buckles/ girth can rub in between flaps and where the riding boot/ stirrup leather sits and rubs on the outside flap. Stitching color can also be darkened by the stirrup leather/ riding boots on the outsode of the flaps. This is all very minor wear and does not make the saddles used, we mark used saddles as either consignment or used in listings. As fit is important with saddles for the horses health and well being we wil always allow trials to our clients. Hence all of our saddles new and demos can possibly have slight marks, darkening of stiching from these trials but are considered new.