Top Quality Craftsmanship from Hawkesbury River Saddle Company

Above: Platinum Jumping Saddle   Left: Pro Sport Saddle

Dressage Saddle

Stockmaster Fender Basket Stamped

Heath Harris has gone back to where he began – making saddles.

As a young man he was apprenticed to Australia’s finest craftsmen before travelling to the outback, breaking horses in the bush and, of course, working in film and television, leading him to become an internationally recognised movie horse trainer.  More recently he has developed television documentaries, created live shows and revived the art of trick riding. For several years now his unique team of Girls Girls Girls has been performing around the country.

Over the years Heath has competed in scores of horse sports riding in many styles of saddles; he knows from first-hand experience where improvements, modifications and changes can be made to traditional designs.

He and his wife, Krissy, created Hawkesbury River Saddle Company initially specialising in an extensive range of fender stock saddles.  They also have a range of reiners, ropers, cutting and western saddles.  And now HRSC  has added to its catalogue innovative designs for dressage and showjumping.

Usually the couple travel overseas to work on major feature films but their most recent trip was to Walsall, the home of the English saddle manufacturing industry in the West Midlands.  Here they collaborated with accomplished artisans whose knowledge and skills are second to none to create a revolutionary new design of dressage saddle.

The Harisses pride themselves not just on the quality of their products but on giving customers value for money.

“Our prices are reasonable,” explained Krissy, “because of the system we use.   Heath is the designer and we test the prototypes in Australia. Generally he makes five or six design changes before he is completely happy with the finished product.  We then source the best materials from around the world to go into our hand-crafted saddles. 

“Our warehouse is in the shed on our farm and we don’t have an expensive retail shopfront.  We sell our saddles online, at trade shows or customers come directly to our warehouse in Mt White.

“Our marketing strategy is ‘straight from warehouse to the public’. And people seem to like that idea.”

Story: Suzy Jarratt

 

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• Visit the Harris Entertainment website to find out more about Hawkesbury River Saddle Company