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Genius Guide

This document provides a step-by-step guide for safely mounting and riding a horse, emphasizing the importance of proper equipment and a good attitude. Key steps include checking the girth, maintaining good posture, and using appropriate rein and leg pressure for communication with the horse. The guide concludes with instructions for dismounting and rewarding the horse after the ride.

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Genius Guide

This document provides a step-by-step guide for safely mounting and riding a horse, emphasizing the importance of proper equipment and a good attitude. Key steps include checking the girth, maintaining good posture, and using appropriate rein and leg pressure for communication with the horse. The guide concludes with instructions for dismounting and rewarding the horse after the ride.

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Jordan Goodman

12-4-14

Genius Guide

Materials:

 A helmet, especially if you are under the age of eighteen

 Riding boots

 Clothes you do not mind getting messy in or riding clothing

 A tacked up horse whom is feeling good and is not sick or hurt

 A good space to ride without your horse getting spooked

 A good attitude

Steps:

1. Double check that the girth is tight

2. Grab your reins and your horse’s mane in your left hand and the part of the

saddle that is closest to your horse’s rear end in the other

3. Put your left foot in the stirrup

4. Hoist yourself into the saddle

5. Put your other foot in the other stirrup

6. Let go of your horse’s mane

7. Hold one side of the reins in each hand

8. Make sure you are not holding the reins too tight so your horse wont start

walking backwards or too loose so that your horse can do whatever he/she

wants to do with his/her head


9. Do NOT play around with your reins to much; if you are on the wrong horse

for fiddling with reins, he/she will throw you

10. Have good posture; it is not fair for the horse if you sitting are like a bag of

potatoes

11. Always keep an eye on what is ahead of you and another on the path that lays

ahead of you; you do not want to ride into a tree or have your horse step on a

nail

12. Be open to listening to your horse’s body language, which could be hard since

horses cannot speak

13. Squeeze your horse’s sides with your legs so he/she will walk

14. As soon as your horse starts to walk, stop squeezing to tell your horse that

he/she did a good job; releasing pressure tells a horse that they did a good

job; even looking at them is pressure

15. If you want your horse to turn to the right, pull on your right rein and visa

versa for turning to the left; do not tug on your reins to roughly because then

you are yanking your horse’s face and at his/her mouth; reins only get the

horse’s head to move one way

16. You can use your left leg to get your horse to go to the right and visa versa

17. Practice a lot and do several obstacle courses; do NOT go any faster because

you need to ride several times and nearly perfect everything at a walk before

trotting

18. When you are done, pull back on your reins to get your horse to stop

19. Lean forward onto your horses neck


20. Take a foot out of the stirrup and swing your leg over your horses back and

onto the ground

21. Remove your other foot from the stirrup

22. Give your horse a rub and a treat

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