Preparing to Saddle Your Horse Western Style: Par 3

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you my tips and techniques to saddle your horse with the western saddle. So now that we have used or stiffed brush to get rid of any dirt or sweat that we may have loosened. Now we are going to take our finishing brush which is a softer bristle brush. We just going to sweep over her in light stroking motions. The bristles on this brush just to ensure that it would get off any surface dust, it brings out a nice shine in your horses coat. So it just remove anything left over that your stiff brush would have left around the surface. It would give your horses a really nice shine. I would walk around the other side enough distance away from her hind. Give you a little pat and let her know that I'm going to the other side. Long strokes gives your coat a nice shine. Get rid of any surface dirt left over, walk back around enough distance away from her feet. This is really a great brush to use. Also on their face so we would just give her a little brush here. It is nice and soft. Most horses don't like anything too stiff on their face so you can use this get, any excess hair and excess dirt off of there face if they have a little sweat behind their ears. You can see that we are getting a little hair off there which is good. That is how you want to brush your horse hair with a finishing brush. "