hey hello and welcome to another episode of my horse's life guru today we will be learning how to tack up a horse properly there's many ways for you to tack up a horse you can tack them up on a post crossties in the stall themselves today we will be showing you the first example on the post find that this is the best way to do it because if a horse gets startled for one if you're not in the barn with the horse how are you gonna get kicked for two um if the horse is panicking then you can just do the quick release dog and undo the quick release knot really quick and get the horse away if you were in the cross ties you would have to undo the cross ties to make sure that the horse wouldn't get undone this is just easier and quicker as well today we will be using our thoroughbred mare zenyatta she is very tame in a great horse for writing english which we will be tacking up today she is our personal aide for today so let's get started you will need a saddle pad fitted or squared grooming supplies a dandy brush curry comb sweat scraper and comb always use a helmet english saddle with girth bit and bridle optional blue bell boot brush a whip martingale supplement we will start off by grabbing our grooming supplies and start grooming the horse first we will be using the dandy brush on the horse this is in circular motion next we will be using the metal comb to comb the horse's hair gotta get get now we will be using our curriculum in circular motions and finally we will be using our sweat scraper now we can start tacking up our horse start by choosing off which saddle pad you're going to use or you can just use both grab your heavy saddle and you're going to place it on your come down and tighten up your girth saddle should be placed right above the withers not too not too low just right now we will be doing the bridle guiding the bed into the horse's mouth do up the throat latch should be able to fit your two fingers in this do up the bit just right once again not too high not too low but just right now take whatever you're using and use it now except for your martingale because you would slip this over the horse's neck and then put that through the girth but you know how that went because we didn't use however we are going to be using our bell boots and brush b finally put on your helmet and grab your whip and get on if you're using a whip at it i hope you enjoyed this episode of horse my horse's life guru thank you for watching