Supplies for Bridling a Horse English Style

Series Summary

Bridling a horse is a key element of horse riding. Riding a horse without a bridle is as useful as driving a car without a steering wheel. Knowing how to bridle a horse is essential and fairly easy, but you need to know how to the proper way to ensure your horse's safety and well being - as well as your own. You can learn how to bridle a horse for free from our horse riding expert.

In this free horse riding video series, learn how to bridle a horse with an English bridle from expert Kelli LaBar. Kelli will demonstrate all the steps necessary for putting an English bridle on a horse. She will show you how to halter a horse English style, how to tie a horse to a cross tie, how to place the halter around a horse's neck, how to place the reins around a horse's neck, how to hold the bridle when bridling the horse, how to pull the crown piece over the horse's ears, how to adjust the noseband of a horse bridle, and how to tighten the throatlatch on an English bridle.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you my tips and techniques to properly bridle your horse with a English bridle. Some of the supplies that you would need when you're preparing to bridle your horse is a halter which is right. This would enable you to have your horse tied or have a little bit control over your horse. Also, you would need your bridle so your bridle consist of a whip and it would consist of reins. So this is something that you would want to have when you ride your horse so you would have a little bit better controlled. These are usually made of leathers. There is many different kind of bits so you want to choose a bit that is going to be proper for your horse so you have the right amount of control. So these are the supplies that you would need to bridle your horse with a English bridle."