Cinching Up the Horse Saddle: Free Horseback Riding Lessons

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Sarah Stetner. I'm an expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. In this video I'm just going ahead and saddling up the horse English. We have already brushed him, got him prepared; so I just put the English saddle on and now I'm going to cinch him up. So this is about were you want the cinch and there is a little strap right here on the saddle pad. You go ahead and go under it and there is two buckles on the saddle I said three earlier but there is two and three straps. So I cinch up the last two the outside two and leave the middle. It is just were you want you cinch to be and this is a elastic band right here. It is like stretchy this little part so it does help the saddle stretch so you want to put it as tight as you can for now. I usually do it about middle ways and then I do the other cinch strap. Notice how end with lifting up with my legs. You don't want to do it with your back you can throw your back out. I'm just going to go ahead and cinch up up here. You want to have them even when you are finished so that is good enough and I would go ahead and walk him around and loosen or check it before I get on as well so you just want your finger to fit through."