Western Riding Essay

Western riding is one of the ways to ride a horse. Girls who ride western are called cowgirls and boys who ride western are called cowboys. You train western horses wear they will be ridding and introduce them to the obstacles they will be doing at a young age. For example if you have a young horse, and you raise them in the barn all by themselves then try and put them out in a coral with a bunch of horses they will be scared and the other horses will pick on them. If you were to put the horse in the coral at a young age the other horses would help raise it and show it the lay of the land. We do this so that when they get older they have little to no fear of the impediment that may or may not appear some day. Trainers do this to help them and
the horses in their life, but they know that you can’t get rid of all a horse's fear. Just like you can't get rid of all a human's fear. In western riding, you use a western saddle that has about a three inch hump in the front. The hump, also called the horn helps you rope cow and other animals. Unsurprisingly, you aren’t strong enough to hold it on your own so you wrap it around the horn and then the horse helps you pull it. Because western bridles are only used for emergency brakes and turning device,it is looped over one ear. You don’t use it normally because when you turn your head it is so heavy that the horse can sense it and it goes in that direction.