Horse Care & Buying Tips : How to Ride a Horse
February 18th, 2010
When learning to ride a horse, use the help of an experienced rider to avoid dangerous situations and to avoid bad habits that will have to be corrected later. Ride a horse by practicing holding the reins and walking with tips from an equestrian coach in this free video on horse care.
Expert: Mara Keith-Hunter
Contact: www.sycamore-stables.com
Bio: Mara Keith-Hunter is a lifelong equestrian and head coach for the Hampshire College equestrian team. She rode in the Intercollegiate National Horse Show for two universities.
Filmmaker: David Pakman
Duration : 0:1:50
Take safety precautions when dressing for horseback riding, such as helmets, closed-toe shoes, riding pants and gloves. Learn to dress for horseback riding with tips from an equestrian team coach in this free video on horseback riding.
This is Hannah’s first lesson on Marley. She has had about 5 riding lessons in total. Hannah is 6 years old and riding very well for her age and level of experience. We are working on bringing her lower leg under her so she doesn’t have so much of a “chair seat.” Chair seat means that the rider has her legs out in front of her and is using the stirrups to push herself back in her saddle, up against the cantle. Riders usually assume a chair seat position because they don’t want to commit to being up over the horse’s motion – they are afraid of falling forward over the neck. For posting the trot, the riders legs should be in alignment with her hips, so that if the horse were to disappear out from underneath her, she would land on her feet. The posture is a lot like the athletic stance once assumes for tennis.
Part one of Caitlins lesson on our horse. (she is 4 years old)
Here is footage from an hour long lesson with Pony Pros.
The rider does a great job figuring out how to keep her balance while making sharp turns. This helps a rider find their balance fast and is a fun exercise for long, quick horses.
On my awesome horse an adopted BLM Mustang…. adopt a wild horse if you can and tell your representatives that you do not support bills that allow the killing or slaughter of wild horses, or population control methods other than adoption!
http://www.goldbarranchbb.com/ The Gold Bar Ranch is a working cattle ranch that can teach anyone how to rope cows and horses. In addition, you can take open range horseback rides anywhere you want go on their ranch. You can ride down the Hassayumpa River and explore lots of different Indian ruins and even pan for gold! Who knows you might get rich!
Wilderness Trails Ranch is a Dude ranch near Durango Colorado where you can 
—Cadence Equestrian Center—
Ablevision covers a story about Windrush Farm, a therapeutic horseback riding farm that helps people with disabilities