Tying a Horse Before Bridling English Style

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. Now we want to tie our horse to groom her. If you do happen to have a barn, you can cross tie your horse. Basically what a cross tie is a chain on either side of the isle that would clip to these D rings of the halter. So your horse could stand in the center of the isle so you can groom her. Now we don't have the situation right here so we are just going to tie her to the fence. You want to make sure before you do this that your horse is a horse that would tie. Cause otherwise you are going to have one that pulls back and it is going to end up being a ugly situation. So you want to make sure before you attempt doing something like this your horse is willing to tie and stand. So what we are going to do is we are going to take our lead rope and we are going to loop it over the fence rail here. You want to make sure that you tie her pretty close. We don't want her to have a lot of slack because we don't want her to be able to get down there to eat grass. We don't want too much line so she can get tangled in it. So we are just going to loop our lead line around here. We just going to take the loop, we are going to cross it over here and we are just going to pull it through like that. So it is just a quick release. If we have to undo it really quick if she starts to spook, instead of pulling away we can undo it in a really quick fashion. So we are just going to take this, loop it through and just do a really quick release like that. So that way if he does happen to spook we would be able to be undone really easily so that she would not get tangled in the fence or end up ripping the fence and dragging the rail with her. So that is how you want to tie your horse. "