Introduction to Preparing Your Horse for Showmanship

Series Summary

Throughout most of recorded history, horses have played a major role in the civilizations of mankind. These magnificent animals have carried us into battle, fierce and unafraid. They have pulled our plows and buggies, and helped us travel long distances. They’ve been essential in herding and driving our cattle, and the police still use them for crowd control situations in urban environments. Without a doubt, horses have proven to be well-adapted for human life, expressing qualities of loyalty and bravery, responding to commands. Riding horses is fun and challenging to do it well, as is preparing to show your horse at a show, otherwise known as showmanship. If you would like to learn showmanship learn for free online from one of our experts who holds hundreds of awards in horse riding.

In this free video series learn how to prepare for showmanship at a horse show from expert horse rider and horse trainer Sarah Stetner. She will teach you how to clip your horse's legs, whiskers, ears and eyelashes; as well as how to clip the bridle path. Learn how to win showmanship, how to trim your horse's mane, how to brush thoroughly, how to make a horse shine using your hands, and how to take leg wraps off of your horse. Another seemingly unusual part of preparing for a horse show is applying face makeup to your horse and applying hoof black to your horse's hooves. Sarah will show you these two important showmanship techniques as well as how to band your horse's mane.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Sarah Stetner, I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village and in this video I'm just going to show you how to prepare for showmanship, it is quiet a long process. As you can tell this is my horse Rowdy and he is not very groomed up as to say in to showmanship style. So I'm going to show you like how to clip him and how to do all kind of stuff. So anyway I'm going to start with the legs. So I'm going to show you how to clip the legs and I'm also going to show you in this video how to cut his mane, band the horse, get the horse all shiny, hoof black, everything pretty much but bathing because it is like 30 degrees outside but you do need to bathe your horse. So anyway alright, so I hope you enjoy this video. "