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Summary: Watch as a seasoned horseback rider demonstrates how to tie up your horse before saddling it in the English style in this free online video about horseback riding.
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Kelli LaBar Kelli LaBar is a practicing aesthetician and makeup artist in Wilmington, NC. She graduated from Miller-Motte Technical College as a certified aesthetician, a... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi! I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to show you my techniques to saddling a horse with an English saddle. Now we will want to tie our horse to groom her. If you do happen to have a barn where you can cross tie your horse. Basically what a cross tie is a chain on either side of the aisle that clip to these D-rings here on the halter so your house can stand in the center of the aisle so that you can groom here. Now we don't have that situation right here so we are going to just tie her to this fence. You want to make sure before you do this that your horse is a horse that will tie because otherwise you are going to have one that pulls back and it is going to end up being an ugly situation. So you want to make sure before you attempt doing something like this that your horse is willing to tie and stand. So what we are going to do is take our lead rope and we are going to loop it over the fence rail here. We are going to make sure that we tie her pretty close. We don't want her to have a lot of slack because we don't want her to be able to get down there to eat grass or we don't want too much line that she can get tangled in this. So we are going to just loop our lead line around here, we are going to take the loop and cross it over here and we are just going to pull it through like that. So it is just a quick release. If we have to undo it really quick if she starts to spook or pull away, we can undo it in a really quick fashion. So we are just going to take this, loop it through and just do a real quick release like that. So that way if she does happen to spook, it will be able to be undone real easy so that she won't get tangled in the fence and end up ripping down the fence and dragging the rail with her. So that is how you want to tie your horse.
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