Goal: To learn grooming and saddling techniques.

Description: Learn proper daily grooming techniques, tail care, clipping procedures and instructions on how to pick your horse’s feet. Listen to an equine specialist discuss the difference in tack and equipment for varied equine programs. Snaffle bits, curd bits, headstalls and reins are discussed. View the safe and correct way to saddle and bridle your horse as shown by an expert.

Objectives:

1. To understand principal horse care and management practices.

2. To demonstrate basic horse grooming practices.

3. To identify equine tack and equipment.

4. To demonstrate how to saddle and bridle horses.