Schleese Saddlery

Schleese Saddlery Service, Ltd., headquartered in Ontario, Canada, is a manufacturer of English riding saddles owned and operated by Certified Master Saddler Jochen Schleese, his wife Sabine, and their partner Earl Rothery. The company offers custom manufacture and expert fitting for English dressage saddles. Schleese Saddlery was the first North American English saddle manufacturer to export their product to the European market.

Schleese is authorized by the Ontario program of local Labour Training and Adjustment Boards [1] as a skilled trade training program and offers a three-year apprenticeship. Their certified saddlefit technicians are guest lecturers at Equine Affaires and Horse World Expos in the United States and, together with the National Riding School in Warendorf, Germany, seek to integrate saddle fitting as part of the certification process for the instructor program.

The saddlery is a good source of information about saddles, saddle fitting, and saddle production. The company illustrated the saddle manufacturing process on Discovery Channel's "How it's Made" (season 6, episode 610).