The bridle goes on the horses head and it is used to control the horse. a bridle has a browban, cheek strap, nose band, drop nose band throat lash reins and a bit.
there are lots of type of bridles.

cleaning your horse

before and after you ride you need to brush all the dirt out of the horse and get all the lose hair out. you need top clean their feet out with a hoof pick to make sure there are no rocks and stones in there feet. you also need to cheek their feet for any saws and brusing before you ride.

The types of bushes there are if the tail brush, dandy brush, body brush and the curry bruch.

The thing you clean their feet out with is a hoof pick.

boots

people put these boots on their horses when they do barrel racing so if the horse crosses his legs over and hits them together the horse wont hurt his legs.

these rubber boots are called bell boots, people use them for barrel racing they are are also used in jumping and flat work. they stop the horses from hurting them slef. they go on thier front feet so that when their back feet hit their front feet they dont cut their feet.

the barrels

for barrel racing every one just use the big round oil barrel. every one puts their own covers over the barrel with the name of the barrel racing club. the covers also help when your going around and you hit your leg on it, it dosnt hurt as much.

tie downs

when people are doing barrel racing they use a tie down. a tie down helps keeps the horses head down so that when you are going for the barrel the horse has to be looking at it.
i use a tie down to keep my horses head down and to stop him from chucking his head around, and some times ill put it on him so that he carnt rear.. if they carnt get their head up they carnt rear...

going around the barrel

when you are turning around the barrel your carnt just run fast to the barrel and pull your horse around. you can break the horses leg if you dont prepair them to go around. you need to take then up and then when your at the barrel you need to slow down tell the horses your turning.

stock horses

when i do barrel racing the kind of horse i use is a stock horse because they are used for chasing cows and doing lots of work with out and not getting tired. they are a strong fast horse.

when i started barrel racing my time wasnt very good. my first time was about 23 seconds and now my time i get is blow 19 seconds. i got my first horse when i was little then we moved so had to sell him and in the last 2 years i now have three horses. i do barrel racing only on one of my horses and the other two my sister rides around the padoct.

horse

hello

about the horse you can use.

you can use any size horse and any breed of horse.
the horse can be big and small.

you can have a fast horse or a slow horse.

depending on how u feel the horse will feel the same way

SADDLES

there is two kind of saddles you can use for barrel racing. you can use a stock saddle that is the kind of saddle that i have in this picture. you can also use a westen saddle and they have a horn. when i use i westen saddle i find the the horn stops you too lean down, but with the stock saddle it holds you in and you can lean right down and that helps your horse go faster

for barrel racing you can be any age. people as young as three can be a part of barrel racing.
you can use any breed of horses. the little kids can be led around the barrel.
if you come first second or third you win money. for first place your can win a couple of hundred dollers.

for barrel racing you need to teach your horse the patten so he can go fast to the first barrel and then you need to slow down so that when you go around the barrel you donk knock it over. when you knock a barrel over you get a 5 seconds added on to your time

barrel racing is a fast and timed sport that is done on horse back at local rodeos.
you run out of the gates and you can go to the left or right barrel first, if you go to the left barrel first you will go aroung that first barrel from the left the second barrel from the right and the third barrel from the right and back down the center as fast as you can.