I have been paid to work with horses for nearly thirty years. Having studied genetics, nutrition, physics and biomechanics, I have been blessed to have learned from many of the legendary horseman this country has produced. I have ridden all types of saddles in all types of terrain such as rough stock and pack strings in western Colorado, performance horses in northern Colorado, worked range cattle in southern Wyoming and demonstrated colt starting throughout the United States. I currently reside in Arizona working cutting horses, cow horses and colt starting. My equipment has literally helped me through life and death situations.

It was time to pursue an idea; I had to build a better cinch. After all these years of horsemanship there never seemed to be a cinch I was truly happy with. When you consider options of how to cinch  your  horse, there are not any great choices out there.  If you want a great bit or a great saddle you call a horseman who understands the significance of that piece of equipment. There doesn’t seem to be a cinch on the market made by a horseman so my hat is in the ring. I understand how significant cinch pressure is and I offer to you a unique approach to an old idea, my mousetrap if you will.

Out of all of the “High Tech” materials and designs, I always seemed to windup riding the traditional mohair cinch, yet they have flaws. So I approached cinching my horse with the mohair cinch and expanded on it. I wanted real sheep skin for padding against the horse’s skin, yet it presented a problem. I was left with a cinch that would pick up debris such as burrs, mud, brush and wet sand from the cutting pen which the cinch held onto. To solve this issue I decided to cover the exposed side of the cinch with hair on hide which has proven to be very successful. So now I offer to you a cinch made of all nature’s creatures for durability that is extremely comfortable, stylish to look at and is very functional. My testing has proven this cinch, made of these materials, takes 4-6 weeks just to break in. This cinch will stretch and mold to your horse. We tested this cinch on my cutting and working cow horses and found that it could be cinched tightly without marking the horse. So having been performance tested, my prototypes just get better with use and I am sure yours will too. 

Thank you for your interest,

Craig Marple