Tack Basics

TACK BASICS covers important points that are a quick guide to learning practical skills to tacking up your horse efficiently and correctly.

THESE POINTS INCLUDE

• Securing the horse to tack up
• The parts of a snaffle bridle
• How to put on a bridle and make adjustments to fit it correctly
• The parts of a saddle
• How to put on a saddle correctly
• Different type of nosebands, martingales, breastplates, reins and stirrups
• How to check tack for safety and comfort of horse and rider
• How to look after tack
• The consequences of using badly fitted or broken tack