“The people I admire are people who navigate unusual paths to success and happiness, understanding that success can only exist where there is happiness.

Success is measured in taking pleasure in your day to day life and living in the moment, being thankful and grateful for what you have. It’s viewing the world from the back of a horse and having peace in your heart, trusting in nature. To obtain this sometimes means doing things differently than anyone had done before, the path to happiness is different for everyone and your biggest challenge in life will be to obtain it, fight for it and keep it.

Here, we are all free to pursue dreams and schemes without regard to reality as everyone else has defined it. We have the freedom to be who we really are.” Helena Kruger

Our Journey

The journey of Trailsaddles.co.za begins in 2007 with the inheritance of a family farm in Vrede, Freestate. Mario van Niekerk, the founder of Trailsaddles.co.za, wanted to turn the farm (which has been rented out to other farmers for the past several years) to a working farm that the whole family could enjoy and spend weekends at. The first order of business was getting horses on the farm. The second order of business was getting tack, and not just any tack, comfortable, safe and well-fitting western tack. It was a real struggle to find quality western saddles and tack at an affordable price. The struggle sparked an idea. For years getting western saddles, tack, hats, boots and clothing was reserved to the few who travelled to the USA or who knew someone who lived there. Our mission became to have these niche items readily available to the general public. Being no stranger to the USA, having lived there for several years Mario imported 20 saddles from American Saddlery. He became aware of a whole niche culture of South Africans who has been underserviced for years, they were emerging and telling him what they wanted and needed, he listened. This lead to importing not only western saddles and tack, but also Stetson hats and Cowboy Boots. In 2012 Mario’s daughter, Helena Kruger has taken a more prominent role in the business.   

Through the years we have broadened our range and we are broadening it still, always listening to what our clients want and need. With the western riding and rodeo industry growing rapidly in South Africa we able to bring more variety to our range and hope to keep being able to grow with the industry, offering products that is not easily attainable anywhere else in the country.

Trailsaddles.co.za’s mission is to be a customer friendly Western and Outdoor store. Offering products that are readily available to ship and be purchased in a safe and convenient manner. Our success is rooted in good quality products, friendly & quick service and reliable delivery. We are dedicated to improving your customer experience with beautiful images, accurate information and ease of purchase from the moment you arrive on our website to when the item is received at your door.


 

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