Part 1: How to Brush a Horse

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Sarah Stetner and I am an expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. I just showed you what the types of brushes were, and now I'm going to show you how to use them in brushing the horses. This is the mane and tail brush that I told you that I'm going to get all the cake and mud on. This side is not that dirty; it is the other side that he is pretty dirty on. So you just kind of brush as if your are brushing a dog or your own hair. You just want to brush and get everywhere where you want, and this is his mane. This is what we use for his mane or that hair brush like that one that I showed you earlier. We trimmed his mane because he was a show horse. So you just go ahead and get all the knots out. You could shampoo his mane and conditioner his mane. So this is now the back bone. You just kind of go with the hair. Pretty much. Make sure you always get under here, it is like the armpit of the horse. Right under here. Usually a lot of mud and dirty gets under there. Over his spine. Get under his stomach, and this is his flank area right here. This part is tricky because the hair goes each way. So you go up with it. Kind of towards the front of the horse and then you bring it back again. So again you go up, over, bring it back, and then you come right here and the rest of the hair goes this way. You never want to kick the horse in this area. Ever. That is why in the rodeos they put flank straps right there to make the bucking broncos buck. That is what they do with that. So we come around here; make sure you get the top part of the butt, that is tallest part of a horse that, and the whithers which is right here. This is where they measure him from actually. From here to here I will show you that in a different video. So anyways just brushing him, get him all clean. This part is like the elbow of the horse or the elbow of a human. Make sure that you get right there too. The elbow or the knee: that is where it is usually dirty. He does have white socks, but you can't even tell because he does live in the mud. His tail, I wrap it up in the winter time so it gets long and pretty for the summer, so I really don't brush that but it stays like that. So now we go to the bad side."