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Location: on my horse | Ok guys go shopping for me, I REALLY need a new saddle pad! Keep it around $200 or less 
ETA: I HATE impact gel lol
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Hungarian Midget Woman
 
Location: Midwest | Well I currently like
5 Star (I have a 1" and a 1/2")
Saddleright
CE Biofit
depending on how the saddle fits the horse. So this is likely no help. LOL |
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Posts: 1482
Location: on my horse | tell me more about them, what do you like? |
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Married to a Louie Lover
Posts: 3303
| I love my 5 star's hands down. I have a 1/2" and a 7/8". I know Rockyroad can keep some of them in your price range, I just got another 1/2" for my barn owner. |
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Expert
Posts: 1482
Location: on my horse | save me some googling and tell me what a 5 star is? Is it wool or synthetic or? |
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  Northern Chocolate Queen
Posts: 16576
Location: ND | Only pad's I buy anymore are 5 Star, they're wool. PM our bb Rockyroad for the best deals on them! |
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 More bootie than waist!
Posts: 18425
Location: Riding Crackhead. | Only pads I buy and use are 5 Stars. I think I have 6 of them now. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Why 5 Star of course  |
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Expert
Posts: 1482
Location: on my horse | hahahaha apparently I need to get myself a 5 star!! Forgive me previous ignorance about the superior brand |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | The 5 stars are wool. They are really good quality!
I kind of go with how I feel with the particular pad and how it meshes with the horse's back and the saddle itself. |
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Posts: 155
| 5 Star pads are the best on the market. They're made of wool. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
Posts: 3303
| Important to note they are a much higher quality and % virgin wool than other wool pads on the market. The Martin fitter I worked with said they are the best pad out there and recommended them to us, even though the tack shop he works for doesn't carry them (we already knew they were awesome though!) |
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Posts: 1119
| Not to be repetitive, but 5 star!!!  |
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Posts: 1538
Location: South Dakota | I really like my Todd Slone pads. I have 3 of them. I would also try a 5 star. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | 5 Stars have super soft wool, and I LOVE the top line contour--fits a horse so well!
Other pads I want to try are:
Saddleright
CE Biofit
Clinton Anderson PRS pad. |
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Posts: 95
| I have a pro choice smx air ride pad and I feel that it works just as well as anything out there and it costs way less than a 5 star pad.
I've been tempted to buy a 5 star but I kind of wonder if you all haven't been sucked in to a marketing scheme. Sure, they might be good, but are they that much better than cheaper alternatives?? |
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Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | albertacowgirl - 2014-05-05 11:11 AM I have a pro choice smx air ride pad and I feel that it works just as well as anything out there and it costs way less than a 5 star pad. I've been tempted to buy a 5 star but I kind of wonder if you all haven't been sucked in to a marketing scheme. Sure, they might be good, but are they that much better than cheaper alternatives??
IMO--yes. I've used Todd Slone's, Bayou West, Impact Gels, and a Classic Equine wool saddle pads and 5 Stars are THE SOFTEST pad I've ever used. They are the only pad where I feel like I could use as thin as a 1/2" pad and feel like the horses' back is still protected.
I read this article and was sold. Granted, 5 Star wrote the article, but they make some good points!
http://www.5starequineproducts.com/research-articles/saddle-pad-research/ |
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Veteran
Posts: 294
| I have a ton of pads including the 5 star. If your saddle fits the 5 star or slone is the way to go. My horse has some shoulder issues so I use the bio fit. I also just ordered an SMX Ortho because I need the shims to be further back. I have a saddleright too and like that just as well as the 5 star. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | albertacowgirl - 2014-05-05 1:11 PM I have a pro choice smx air ride pad and I feel that it works just as well as anything out there and it costs way less than a 5 star pad. I've been tempted to buy a 5 star but I kind of wonder if you all haven't been sucked in to a marketing scheme. Sure, they might be good, but are they that much better than cheaper alternatives??
Hummm  , no marketing scheme, been useing 5 Stars for years now and they held up lot longer then any other pads I have used. And my oldest one still looks new. Had an air ride pads by Pro choice and they will break down after a year that I used them. I thought the air rides where awesome too, but then I found out about the 5 Stars  |
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More bootie than waist!
Posts: 18425
Location: Riding Crackhead. | albertacowgirl - 2014-05-05 1:11 PM I have a pro choice smx air ride pad and I feel that it works just as well as anything out there and it costs way less than a 5 star pad. I've been tempted to buy a 5 star but I kind of wonder if you all haven't been sucked in to a marketing scheme. Sure, they might be good, but are they that much better than cheaper alternatives??
IMO yes they are worth it and its definately not a marketing scheme. I used to use SMX pads but my horses were continuously back sore. |
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