How do you train your horse to be ridable?

Answer 1

This is a long process, and it is best to get a professional to help you the first time around. If you can't get a professional, then get as many books and videos as you can find.

In a short paragraph, after you have done all the necessary ground work, it is a matter of desensitizing the horse to tack and eventually to you being on his back. If you have done proper ground work, the horse will have learned to trust you, and it should go smoothly. After the horse isn't afraid of you being on his back, you will start using your voice cues to get him to walk and stop, and eventually encorporate leg cues. If you have done ground driving, then the horse knows to turn and stop with bit cues.

But you really should get a profesional, because if you have to ask how to train your horse, you shouldn't be doing it by yourself. You need someone to show you how to do it and to help you through your horse's individual problems you come across.