Objective: introduction, evaluation
- Tour of facilities for new student
- Introduce lesson horse
- Explain how to approach horse
- Discuss how to act and how NOT to act around a horse
- Introduce halter, lead rope, and how to use them
- Explain leading a horse and safety while doing so
- Lead horse around an open area for practice for a few large circles
- Learn to stop, start, and back up a horse while in hand
- Lead horse into barn, crosstie
- Learn how to groom a horse and where to stand/not to stand
- Learn to pick out hooves
- Introduce saddle and bridle and how to put them on the horse
- Tack up horse, lead out to arena
- Tighten girth, adjust stirrups, mount horse
- Lead horse around at a walk, let student get comfortable on horse
- Teach turning/steering - pulley rein or neck rein, whether English or western
- Learn why heels down and shoulders back is important, and why we wear a helmet when riding
- Go over ground poles
- Weave in-between cones on ground
- Learn to dismount
- Untack horse, groom, put horse away
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