Occasionally, horses want to increase their speed when a client is on their back. The Right Step PATH-certified instructor Myleah Coleman demonstrates how to handle this situation to slow the horse down.
One of the responsibilities of a volunteer horse leader is tacking up a horse for a lesson. Morgan Griffith explains the steps in order. Bookmark this so you can find it later. 1) Tack room: Look at the lesson sheet, get out the tack and the grooming bag. 2) Put the tack near the cross-ties. 3) Get the horse from their stall or paddock. 4) Groom: curry, hard brush, soft brush, and hooves. 5) Tack up: saddle pad, saddle, girth.
We hand walk horses when they're injured or on break from lessons. Volunteers who are new to The Right Step, here are some helpful tips from Morgan Griffith for hand walking a horse.
Morgan Griffith shows you how to halter a horse. This is training for our new volunteers at The Right Step, Inc, an adaptive riding barn in Colorado.
Have you taken the horse blanketing class with Christine Remy yet? Christine walks volunteers through how to blanket a horse.
