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If your new saddle is made of high quality leather, which it should be 
if it is "definitely not low end," just keep it clean and well 
conditioned/oiled.  Last weekend I rode in pouring rain for 8 hours. 
Like your OK experience, at the end, I poured water out of my Ariats. 
My saddle looked a bit bedraggled as it dried but I took it indoors and 
cleaned it well with glycerin soap (what a saddle restorer friend 
recommends), then slathered "Saddle Butter" on it, top and bottom and in 
all the crevices I could reach.  By the next morning, it looked new and 
the leather was nice and soft again.
I go back and forth about fleece saddle covers.  Sometimes I like them, 
sometimes I don't.  I'm not using one right now.  I think, but don't 
really know, that a soaking wet fleece cover on a saddle for 8 hours 
might be worse for a saddle than not having one on.  I'll have to 
remember to ask the friends I was riding with how their saddles did 
because they did have fleece covers.
It wouldn't hurt to ask the maker of your new saddle how to treat the 
saddle if it gets wet.  Many new saddles come with care instructions and 
sometimes even with a tub of the maker's preferred "goo."
Laney

Beth Leggieri wrote:
> Will be changing in the near future from a low-end cordura/leather 
> endurance saddle to a full leather one that is definitely not low end.  
> Having been inundated a few years ago at a ride in the Oklahoma 
> mountains and soaked to the bone--me and all equipment with water 
> sloshing in my leather Ariats, am wondering which precautions I should 
> take to protect my saddle from similar storms. 
>  
> 1.  Am thinking I'll bite the bullet and desensitize my horse to my 
> wearing a full saddle-slicker that will offer some protection for the 
> saddle.
> 2.  What else?  I haven't seen endurance "saddle protectors" for bad 
> weather in the catalogs that are along the same lines as those offered 
> for the expensive leather English discipline saddles.  Surely they are 
> out there and I just haven't seen them?
>  
> All suggestions welcome!
>  
> Thanks,
> Beth
> Denton, TX
>
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