The English Bridle: 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 film I'm just teaching you how to go ahead and saddle up and bridle up the horse for English. I just put the saddle on and just cinch it up so now I am ready for the bridle. This is a English bridle and his bit that he is using is called a kimberwick it is a very good bit. I like it a lot and these are English reins for western I was riding with split reins. This is English reins and they are not split they are connect so it does go a circle around his neck. We have a nose band. The head stall. This is called the cornet band or the ear piece actually sorry. This is the ear piece. So and notice that his chin strap is flat how there are like reins and the chin strap is flat. You do want your chin strap flat if it is off each and every way it is going to hurt your horses chin. So the correct English way to have the chin strap is flat so it doesn't pinch the horse. Alright we are going to go ahead and bridle him up."