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 The Brave One
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Location: snowbelt, WA | How many people keep them just to have?If you were lucky enough to win more than one would you just keep them all if you don't use them? |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | I keep all my prizes, unless it is a duplicate of something I already have or is just not my thing/colors/style. Saddles stay with me though. |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 929
| I have never won one...but I plan to use them or keep them all in a big room like Bob Avila or Trevor Brazile if I am as lucky. (And as talented.)  |
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Expert
Posts: 1432
| I keep all of mine.. I worked hard to win them so I want to keep them.. And I'm not done winning them either.. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 629
| I'll say I have yet to win one. Although this year, I am close, and IF I win it, I have a choice if I want to put the extra money toward a saddle, or get a different prize, or just get money. Since it'll be my first, I'd like to get the saddle.
If they don't fit my horse though, I'm not opposed to taking off the fenders and selling the saddle.
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 Shelter Dog Lover
Posts: 10277
| My girls have won several, they kept 2 or 3 and have sold the rest. |
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Posts: 1302
Location: California | I have won 4 and have used a couple and have one on display in my house. Howevever, a couple years ago I had everything I owned stolen out of my trailer including the 3 trophy saddles and all my breast collars/bridles. I keep it all, especially now. I worked hard to earn it. |
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 Ima Cool Kid
Posts: 3496
Location: TN | I still have my first one but after #17 I have sold all but 3.
They were all 15 inch and I ride in a 14 inch |
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 Morale Booster!!
Posts: 1459
| Between my 2 boys they have won 25 saddles. They have used a few of them but the rest are in our house on display. We thought about selling some, but a lot of hard work went into winning those saddles.. |
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Posts: 754
Location: Arkansas | I still have all 12 of mine. I ride a few, a couple are in my living room, and the rest are in my Mom and Dad's house. I'm way too sentimental to sell them. Each one is special to me in its own way. |
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Posts: 5293
| Wow. That turned into a brag session. Lol yes I keep mine. I don't need to say how many I have amassed. But yes , I keep them and think it offensive to sell them. |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
Posts: 2981
Location: Louisiana | I have won one. I have thought about selling it as I don't really ride in it much. Hubby says no, you only win your first saddle once. He has his first saddle as well.
Hopefully one day I can add more. I was really looking good for one association this year but after 2 low placings it's pretty much out of my grasp now unless the top two gals stay home for a show. And I don't see that happening lol. |
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  Witty Enough
Posts: 2954
Location: CTX | If I ever get lucky enough to win one I would have hubby build me a nice stand for it and be putting that on display in the house. (Most I see here are 14" anyway, and my big booty needs at least a 15".... ) |
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Posts: 1304
| I think it would just depend! I haven't won one and haven't really competed but I have a friend for example, that has 4 or 5 and doesn't use any of them and would like to sell all but one to put towards a new saddle. I can relate and don't like to keep things around that I'm not using! I would probably just keep the most important ones or one that I really liked to use, and sell the rest. I think it just depends on how much they mean to you or how much use you'd really get out of them. |
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 Born not Made
Posts: 2937
Location: North Dakota | When I win one for the first time, I will let you know! 
I'm inclined to think that it most likely wouldn't fit my crazy wide horses, whatever I would win, and I like to think I would keep it on display .... but I HATE clutter, haha. If I have something I can't use or haven't used in a long time, it usually is out the door.
I guess it's your saddle. You won it. You can do whatever you want with it.
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Posts: 1432
Location: Never in one place long | I wish I had the problem of wondering what to do with all my trophy saddles. :) |
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 The One
Posts: 7998
Location: South Georgia | Well, I have 116 of them and I keep them all!
Just kidding. LOL Was surprised at how this thread turned, is all. |
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 Thread Killer
Posts: 7545
| I didn't win squat when I was still riding (if you could even call it that), but I'm not offended by others stating how many saddles they've won. We've had many threads just like this before, without the needless butthurt. Why is this one suddenly different? I thought the "everyone's a winner" and "life's not fair" mentalities were poopooed and celebrated (respectively) here?
Edited by Just Plain Lucky 2015-08-19 10:48 AM
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Posts: 1257
Location: Colorado plains standing on a goat head! | We have kept some and sold some. Two that I liked I put new fenders on to sell them and will display one fender from each on the wall. They will take a lot less room that way. |
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The Brave One
Posts: 20550
Location: snowbelt, WA | I have a friend who won her first and might sell it and keep the fenders. That seems like the best idea, I hate for anyone not to be able to keep them.
Thank you to everyone who answered.
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 490
| I kept my first one and still use it. My second one, I needed money for rent so I sold it. I wish I could buy it back, but cant find it now. |
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 No Name Nancy
Posts: 2715
Location: never in the right place | I have 1 that I won, it doesn't fit anything and rides like a brick, so it sits in my foyer on a saddle rack and mostly gets jackets thrown on it.
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 Three in a Bikini
Posts: 2035
| As a person that has never won a saddle... I will tell you that I would keep them all LOL!
I keep everything I have ever won, including the most hideous rug purse, (hunter green and pepto pink??).
But I did have a friend that sold the saddles and hung her fenders on the wall. That may be what I do when I become so amazing I just have no idea what to do with all of my prizes. |
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Veteran
Posts: 121
Location: SK | I've won one and it will never leave my possession. The horse I won it on passed away a couple months later. It fit him perfect but wouldn't have fit me. It will be on display always. I know lots of people who have won ALOT and keep them all even if they aren't used and I know of people who have won ALOT and sell most of them. I think personally it's saddening that people sell because as a sponsor you paid to have your name on it for that event and if it's sold it can seem like they don't appreciate it. I do understand why some get sold but that's just my personal opinion on them :) |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | I sell things............ We have a small house and no space, so I've got pictures...but the saddles are gone. If you've got the room to display them tastefully, it's fun to hang onto them. I've always thought trophy/theater rooms were cool. I don't hang on to much of anything tho, I know I'm weird that way. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 427
Location: Midwest Iowa | As someone that sells saddles that are consigned to me, trophy saddles are the HARDEST to sell....and I understand why! I personally would not want to run in a saddle that said "winner of whatever" and it was not me doing the winning.
If I can get a saddle won, I would sure keep it. For those that have not won one yet, it's a cherished prize to obtain! Keep riding hard for your/our dreams! |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 629
Location: Roping pen | Nope, sell them unless they fit something and I need that fit. Everything I have (except spouse) is for sale!!!! I have horses and need the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$........ |
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 Owner of a ratting catting machine
Posts: 2258
| I keep mine in the living room where I can pet it whenever I walk past. I still feel incredibly lucky to own and ride the mare that won it for me, and the time and place that I won it was very, very special to me. I think that all trophy saddles should be respected for the hard work and effort that went into winning one, and I think it's sad when I see one for sale. |
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 Strong Willed Woman
Posts: 6577
Location: Prosser, WA | I sold both of mine. Neither fit any of my horses and I lived in a small house with no room to keep them. Also needed the money to buy the saddle for my gelding that actually fit him. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
Posts: 7268
| Big D and B - 2015-08-20 4:04 PM
As someone that sells saddles that are consigned to me, trophy saddles are the HARDEST to sell....and I understand why! I personally would not want to run in a saddle that said "winner of whatever" and it was not me doing the winning.
If I can get a saddle won, I would sure keep it. For those that have not won one yet, it's a cherished prize to obtain! Keep riding hard for your/our dreams!
I won one and kept it. It is in my living room. The saddle I ride in is a trophy saddle that I bought - CHEAP because of that but it's a Tod Slone and probably the best built saddle I even owned. I don't have a problem riding someone else's trophy but I'm cheap that way! |
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 Dancing in my Mind
Posts: 3062
Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | I just buy mine off of people who sell their's, then I use them with pride becuase that is the only way I will ever have one. LOL!!!!!
Seriously though, I really did buy a really nice one that works on my daughter's horse well. I got it at half the cost, I would of had to pay for it other wise and I am just honest with people when they ask. |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 617
Location: London Ontario | Once I have 4, I plan on making them into barstool, practical and doesn't take up useless space! |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 427
Location: Midwest Iowa | That does make sense if you find a great deal on a throphy saddle. I was looking from a sellers eye, they have asked me to sell at top dollar cause of the brand. I get that, but then again there is the other side to it with the winning marking on there. If a person was going to buy a trophy saddle at top dollar why not just buy a new saddle from the company....man o man!
None the less, each is there own. I understand selling cause of money needs and things. And as we all age in numbers and wisdom, our practices will change as well. 
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 Hot Dispatcher
Posts: 10185
Location: Utah | I have kept some and ride them, sold some and kept fenders off of some of the ones I have sold. |
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Expert
Posts: 4766
Location: Bandera, TX | I have a few treasures in my saddle house but quite frankly I don't normally like the ride of trophy saddles. I have "loaned" many out. My Ft Smith and a few rodeo saddle are falling apart in the saddle house so I made up my mind a few years back to let those that needed a saddle to come and try-take and ride if it helps them out.
I love to see the gals using them. It sparks a memory better than me going into the saddle house and seeing those saddles falling apart with age and neglect. |
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Expert
Posts: 1280
Location: Texas | That is why I sold mine. It didn't fit me & it breaks my heart to see nice leather just sitting there. Saddles NEED to be used. Jmo |
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Veteran
Posts: 103
| I had two saddle makers tell me that a lot of the trophy saddles are not as well made as others. Has anyone else heard that? |
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Expert
Posts: 1586
Location: west of East Texas | I won bunches as a kid. I kept the first few because I really needed them. After that I sold them just as quick as I could as that was my 'allowance'. I haven't sold any of my kid's but that's because they are using all of them but the very first one. I have won a couple as an adult and they were sold. My only regret was not having good pictures to remember them by. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 464
| I am a little surprised at how some people responded. I promise you, I'm not bragging. I have 3, all roping saddles. I use them all. Saw a quote once by a famous author. I can't remember exactly how it goes, but something like, "I would rather have it dull and a knicked by wear, than tarnishing in a sheath". That's how I feel about them. About 10 years ago, I lost everything is ever owned in a natural disaster. I look at things differently now. I'd rather get the use out of something, just look at it. Someday (in the not too distant future) I want be able to do the things I'd like. I can hang them on the wall then. |
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