Horse Care & Buying Tips : How to Ride a Horse

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.
Filmmaker: David Pakman

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• horses
• horse care
• horse grooming
• horse buying
• horse riding
• horseback riding
• equestrian
• horse health
• horse first aid

[BlueLover115]

OHEMGEE I LOVE THE COLOR OF THOU DAPPLED EQUINE! :)

Nice video by the way but I do have to agree, horses should ALSO be guided with the leg and not just the reins. :)

*workingonbothwithBlue*

[TeenageDirtbag88]

I think its just the basics she's teaching. When I started to learn how to ride the first thing I was taught was stop, go, left, right which is what she is saying. She's done a good effort in making this video and you can't really say that 'no wonder so many people get hurt riding if they learn by watching junk like this' because the first thing she says is to have someone experienced to help so it is safer,

[HorseRiderJenna]

My friend was asking, did u hold the reins to get on the horse?

[horselover99100]

@duncanhill4 um no im pretty sure...my comment wasnt a mistake..!..and like i said!...her horseKNOWS how to stand still it proboly got off balance or something werre not perfect now r we uuh no...and ya u "used" to ride!

[duncanhill4]

u gotta teach ur horse how to stay still when mounting on.

[BeautifulMermaidBaby]

Your Horse is simply beautiful!

[partywolf753]

Thanks for all the tips it will help me when i get m horse soon

:)

[MySpottyRhea]

@MySpottyRhea i dont even remember writing this?!?!?!? weird, i think my friend hacked my account

[123456789mischief]

I can't stand english riding. but I also prefer coke as opposed to pepsi. how boring would it be if we all did the same thing?

Not a bad video she was clear and easy to understand, only thing I like to emphasize is heels down and not all the way in. seen people get dragged thankfully not far and in a ring but its a wake up call.

The horse is beutifull love the colouring and seems to be well trained.

[Thoroughbred17]

Okay, everyone who is saying riding is more complicated than just rein. Yes, it is. There's no doubt about that. However, you can't put years of practice into a two minute video. This is for bare beginners with NO experience, probably just researching before they start lessons. Even at the beginning of the video, she said to learn with an instructor because it's very dangerous to learn alone, and you'll probably learn wrong. SO RELAX!

[bicardi19]

hey this really helped me thanx

[tessa0803]

Thank you for that :) and by the way i love that horse :D