In Minecraft, you cannot craft a saddle using a crafting table in the standard Java or Bedrock editions. Saddles must be obtained through other means such as:

• Finding them in chests in locations like dungeons, nether fortresses, mob spawner rooms, and villages.
• Receiving them as drops from mobs like ravagers (which always drop a saddle when killed during village raids) and striders ridden by zombified piglins.
• Fishing, where there is a 0.8% chance to catch a saddle.
• Trading with master-level leatherworker villagers.

Once you have a saddle, you can use it to ride horses, donkeys, mules, camels, and skeleton horses (with some variations depending on the edition). Note: There is a recent update or mod mentioned in one source that allows crafting a saddle using 3 leather and 1 iron ingot, but this is not part of the official vanilla Minecraft game as of now and may refer to modded gameplay or upcoming features

. Summary:

• Official Minecraft: Saddles are not craftable; they must be found or obtained through loot, mob drops, fishing, or trading.
• Modded or certain updates might allow crafting saddles with leather and iron ingots, but this is not standard gameplay yet

Therefore, to get a saddle in Minecraft, explore chests, defeat specific mobs, fish, or trade rather than crafting it.