How to take care of your horse - video 2

Before stabling your horse put your helmet on.
Then put on the saddle blanket. This is the correct way to put it.
Put on and slide back. The edge aligns with the leg.
The hard parte: the heavy leather saddle. Put the saddle on the blanket.
The gurt is the horse belt. Be carefull when putting it.
The zip strap (Letigo) and the D ring see how to place the Gurt on them.
Be shure not to twist the belt. Use the D ring.
Tight the belt parts. Some saddles have a place to put the extra belt.
How to put the horse bit. The curve bit that has an extra break.
Put the ring around his neck and tight it up.
There are lot´s of ways to put the Bridle on the horse.
She shows how she learnd it.
Open the horse mouth by putting your finger in the corner of the horses mouth.
Now how to attach the drow watch.
You don´t want it too tight nor too loose.
3 fingers between the bridle the horse's neck.
Make sure the belt is even both sides.
Now you are ready to get on.
Put the right foot, one two tree, go up to the saddle.


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How to take care of your horse - video 1

How to take care of your horse - video 1 teaches us about Tail Care and Braiding. We need to comb the tail before actually raid the horse. How to comb the horse tail. We need to take care with the horse back so go to the side. Start at the bottom of the tail then evolve to the top. You can twist the hair to show your hair. Some like tails long and full, but some may like wired. Also wave. There are spetial horse ties to place at the end of the tail of the horse.


Grooming the horse before riding is also important. You can make some circular motions. Get good at the back and underneth the horse belly. Try to clear the dirt as possible. They are in Bearfield. Universal brush is also used, but not on the legs. The Grooving style shown is the quick groove. Soft Versial brush is also used. Hoof care is made with the hand. Clean it with a metal tool, but take care so the horse doesn´t step on you. Frog is a triangular area in the horses foot that must be cleaned with this tool. If you don´t clean well it can get infected in the frog area. Carefull with the back feet of the horse. It better use some glasses cause it can get durty.

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Having succeeded in handling his ears

Having succeeded in handling his ears

"Having succeeded in handling his ears, advance towards the neck, with the same precautions, and in the same manner; observing always to augment the force of the strokes whenever the horse will permit it. Perform the same on both sides of the neck, until he lets you take it in your arms without flinching.

"Proceed in the same progressive manner to the sides, and then to the back of the horse. Every time the horse shows any nervousness return immediately to the forehead as the true standard, patting him with your hands, and from thence rapidly to where you had already arrived, always gaining ground a considerable distance farther on every time this happens. The head, ears, neck and body being thus gentled, proceed from the back to the root of the tail.

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At the very moment he turns his head

At the very moment he turns his head

"At the very moment he turns his head, hold out your left hand towards him, and stand perfectly still, keeping your eyes upon the horse, watching his motions if he makes any. If the horse does not stir for ten or fifteen minutes, advance as slowly as possible, and without making the least noise, always holding out your left hand, without any other ingredient in it than that what nature put in it." He says, "I have made use of certain, ingredients before people, such as the sweat under my arm, etc., to disguise the real secret, and many believed that the docility to which the horse arrived in so short a time, was owing to these ingredients; but you see from this explanation that they were of no use whatever. The implicit faith placed in these ingredients, though innocent of themselves, becomes 'faith without works.' And thus men remained always in doubt concerning this secret. If the horse makes the least motion when you advance toward him, stop, and remain perfectly still until he is quiet. Remain a few moments in this condition, and then advance again in the same slow and imperceptible manner. Take notice: if the horse stirs, stop without changing your position. It is very uncommon for the horse to stir more than once after you begin to advance, yet there are exceptions. He generally keeps his eyes steadfast on you, until you get near enough to touch him on the forehead. When you are thus near to him, raise slowly, and by degrees, your hand, and let it come in contact with that part just above the nostrils as lightly as possible. If the horse flinches, (as many will,) repeat with great rapidity these light strokes upon the forehead, going a little further up towards his ears by degrees, and descending with the same rapidity until he will let you handle his forehead all over. Now let the strokes be repeated with more force over all his forehead, descending by lighter strokes to each side of his head, until you can handle that part with equal facility. Then touch in the same light manner, making your hands and fingers play around the lower part of the horse's ears, coming down now and then to his forehead, which may be looked upon as the helm that governs all the rest.

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Powel's System of Approaching The Colt.

But, before we go further, I will give you Willis J. Powel's system of approaching a wild colt, as given by him in a work published in Europe, about the year 1811, on the "Art of taming wild horses." He says, "A horse is gentled by my secret, in from two to sixteen hours." The time I have most commonly employed has been from four to six hours. He goes on to say: "Cause your horse to be put in a small yard, stable, or room. If in a stable or room, it ought to be large in order to give him some exercise with the halter before you lead him out. If the horse belong to that class which appears only to fear man, you must introduce yourself gently into the stable, room, or yard, where the horse is. He will naturally run from you, and frequently turn his head from you; but you must walk about extremely slow and softly, so that he can see you whenever he turns his head towards you, which he never fails to do in a short time, say in a quarter of an hour. I never knew one to be much longer without turning towards me.

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Faucher or no one else can

Faucher or no one else can

Faucher, or no one else, can ever learn the horse a single thing by the means of a scent alone.

How long do you suppose a horse would have to stand and smell of a bottle of oil before he would learn to bend his knee and make a bow at your bidding, "go yonder and bring your hat," or "come here and lay down?" Thus you see the absurdity of trying to break or tame the horse by the means of receipts for articles to smell of, or medicine to give him, of any kind whatever.

The only science that has ever existed in the world, relative to the breaking of horses, that has been of any account, is that true method which takes them in their native state, and improves their intelligence.

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For every thing that we get him to do of his own accord

For every thing that we get him to do of his own accord

Now, reader, can you, or any one else, give one single reason how scent can convey any idea to the horse's mind of what we want him to do? If not, then of course strong scents of any kind are of no account in taming the unbroken horse. For every thing that we get him to do of his own accord, without force, must be accomplished by some means of conveying our ideas to his mind. I say to my horse "go 'long" and he goes; "ho!" and he stops: because these two words, of which he has learned the meaning by the tap of the whip, and the pull of the rein that first accompanied them, convey the two ideas to his mind of go and stop.

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