Saddle blankets: innovative, horse-contoured designs from LittleJoe

The no-wrinkle saddle blanket on Chi-enne

No-Bunch Saddle Blankets
for the LittleJoe bareback saddle

FREE with purchase of a LittleJoe bareback saddle!
Machine washable. Helps keep your saddle clean!
Exclusive fleece underside keeps your horse's back comfortable
Innovative design is contoured to your horse's curves--won't wrinkle or bunch & become uncomfortable
Express yourself! Match your horse or choose your favorite color.

Fleece
underside
slicks moisture and sweat away just like a Neoprene cinch.

Helps keep
your
saddle clean!

Allows your horse's skin to breathe,
keeping his back from becoming
hot and sore.

Make your horse more comfortable with a blanket that really fits... and help keep your LittleJoe bareback saddle clean at the same time. What could be better?

Since these blankets are intended to go with our bareback saddles, they are not heavily padded. They are intended to keep your bareback saddle clean and to be easily washed. Available in a wide variety of colors and patterns, LittleJoe saddle blankets are never mass-produced but are individually sewn. Each one is unique.

$26.95
when purchased separately. Free with purchase of bareback saddle.

Shop saddle blankets

View saddle blanket options

The full saddle blanket story

When we first started making bareback saddles, we realized that decorative saddle blankets were a necessary accessory--not for padding, but to help keep the underside of the saddle clean. The bareback saddles are difficult to clean because of the leather seat, but a blanket can just be thrown in the wash. The blankets can also be a great way to accent the color of your saddle, or your horse!

Ordinary saddle blanket doesn't fit a horse's contours

The first blankets we made had a straight top profile, like the one pictured at left. These worked fine under regular saddles, where the bars of the saddle press the blankets to the horse's sides and the gullet of the saddle puts no pressure on the top line of the blanket.

But when we began using them with the bareback saddles, we found that they wrinkled and bunched up behind or beneath the saddle, putting pressure on the withers.

The difference is, of course, that in a bareback pad the rider's weight presses the blanket down onto the topline of the horse, and a straight blanket simply can't fit well under those circumstances. So we redesigned the blankets, adding a large v-shaped gusset to accommodate the withers and a smaller one in the back to keep the blanket from pulling tight over the horse's hips, as shown.

To protect your horse's back, our saddle blankets have no seam down the center. And the gusset seams are placed so that they never press on the horse's back.

LittleJoe saddle blanket contoured for better fit

At LittleJoe, kindness and originality always guide us
as we develop better products for you and your horse.