The physical properties of a correctly inflated Saddle Floaty naturally and gently cradle your saddle. This is what cleverly maintains the custom shape of your wool and foam stuffed saddle panels and protects them from any distortion or damage caused from resting on a metal or wooden saddle rack. For a western saddle, the Saddle Floaty prevents compression patterns of a saddle rack into the fleece undersurface and allows for maintaining your saddle's shape, free from wear and tear on the fleece. No more dents, no more pancaking / flattening compression to the flocking, foam and fleece panels. This is why the Saddle Floaty makes sense. It's the product you didn't know you needed. Happy horse, Happy you! Happy bank account :) 

Other saddle protectors are made using various types of foam that will compress, allowing the racks' shape to influence from underneath and also pancake & flatten your saddle panels.  For example, the wooden Saddle Smith version may well act as a barrier to the saddle rack, but it will cause a pancaking flatness to your saddle panels. Not good !

So you have to ask, when is a saddle pad enough to protect your saddle from the rack it rests on 90% of the time? Never!  

To prevent this kind of damage from even starting, put your saddle on a Saddle Floaty today. With an original Saddle Floaty, your saddle just floats on a cradle of air protection. Peace of mind is yours.