Write An Essay On How To Make A Saddle Padd

Next for a couple of sessions I will lunge him in the surcingle putting the saddle pad under it to add more padding. You don’t need the saddle pad, but it will make it more comfortable for your horse, and you will need one once we start using the saddle. After your horse, has calmed down and is comfortable with the surcingle, and listening to your aids clearly, is saddling.
You want to let your horse smell it and see it and be completely fine around it so that they don’t care about it at all. The first thing we will do is get another person to hold the horse so you can gently place the saddle on their back. For the saddle, you will want to use one that fits you and the horse properly.
They should be comfortable with the saddle on them before you tighten the girth at all. Put the saddle pad on, then the saddle like you have done this every day for your whole life, so they think “Oh okay nothing is going to hurt me.” You need to be confident and calm. Once you have the saddle on remove it after they stand calmly. Then keep doing that for at least two more sessions. After those sessions, we will tighten the girth and roundpen them wearing …show more content…
Do this slowly, and confidently so your horse knows they are safe. When you are mounted sitting on your horse, you will pet them all over staying calm, making sure you are secure in the saddle in case they decide to buck or rear you can stay safe. And by all means, no one who doesn’t have enough confidence, should get on the horses back. That will be a setup for failure. Once you have dismounted, walk the horse a couple steps forward and then go back to the mounting block and repeat multiple more times. Seeing that young horses only have an attention span of about 10 minutes, you should be very productive of this. Always end on a good note. That goes for any horse, no matter what you are