How to Band Your Horse to Prepare for a Horse Show

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Sarah Stetner, I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. In this video I'm just showing you how to prepare for showmanship. What I'm going to show you right now is how to go ahead band the horse. Banding is optional but I use to do it at all of my shows so he is not banded. He wasn't band and usually you band the night before the show or the night before the class. So these are little rubber bands that I'm using, kind of tiny. You can either band or braid. Band is for western usually and braiding is for English but I just band him all the time anyway English or western. So what you want to do is go ahead and get a chunk of mane. There is bander too like little combs. You just want to do a little pony tail going around and you do want a even line. You want a even line going from rubber band to rubber band. So I'm going go ahead and use my comb well to get a nice little even spot. A bobby pin works as well to hold back the mane, this part of the mane over here just so it won't get in your way banding. This takes about an hour to band, so you just want to go ahead and use all the rubber bands. Usually I do about 20-22 in his mane and I put the sleazy down, put a sleazy on him to go ahead and lay the bands down and make them straight and even in a straight line. Then some times I band his forelock as well, so that is banding. "