The riding becomes more and more available and popular. And there is no wonder, it is difficult to find more useful pastime. Walks top - a great way to completely reduce stress and the collected fatigue, to increase the physical training. But the horse is a living being and to find a common language, it is necessary to be able to look after her. First of all learn to saddle correctly a horse, it is absolutely simple.
It is required to you
- - saddle;
- - saddleblanket;
- - podpersye.
Instruction
1. Make sure that on a back of a horse there is no dirt, lumps, scratches and scrapes. Just carry out up to grain by a palm to define it.
2. Put a saddleblanket on withers as it is possible closer to the head of a horse. Then accurately shift it down a croup. It becomes to smooth wool. If at once to put a saddleblanket back, wool under it can be wrapped and give to a horse an inconvenience during the movement.
3. Wrap a girth and stirrups and put on a saddle. It is necessary to avoid hit of a girth under a saddle. Besides, freely fallen stirrup can slap a horse up to grain on the right side and frighten.
4. Put a saddle on withers of a horse as it is possible above, and then accurately for its skatita back, so that from under a saddle ahead acted as at least 2 cm of a saddleblanket. If you accidentally shift a saddle too far back, lift it and shift again. It is impossible to move a saddle on a back of a horse "against wool".
5. Lower the right stirrup and a girth. Stretch a girth under a stomach of a horse on the left side and pass a leather belt on the left side in a girth ring. Make sure that the saddle lies exactly, and does not touch a body of a horse any parts. The saddle has to lie completely on a saddleblanket.
6. When using it was propped up before tightening a girth, stretch it in a loop. Between a girth and a shoulder of a horse there has to be a distance equal to palm width. Otherwise the girth will press and hinder the movement.
7. Tighten a girth on the left side gradually not to frighten a horse. Do not draw. To check, the girth is how strongly tightened, push two fingers under a buckle. They have to pass freely. The saddle has to keep densely on a back of a horse.
8. If you use a back girth, then tighten it in the last turn and it is not strong. It has to be not tightened, and rather free. That it did not dangle and was not displaced to the inguinal area, attach it to a front girth by means of a special small thong.
9. Before saddling, double-check a front girth. Some horses during a sedlovka "pout". Then, when the saddle is already fixed, the horse relaxes muscles of a stomach and fastening of a girth weakens.