Yes. Saddles only help to support the rider; they aren't necessary.
Riding bareback is fairly easy except for you have ho saddle so you are less balanced. if you are a new beginner to riding you may want someone to lead you around but if you arent than you can go by yourself. if you are riding bareback and your horse is wearing a bridle it will help to hold onto the main as well as the reins. hold tight with your legs but not to tight as to make your horse go faster. if you are riding with only a halter tied into reins i wouldn't sugest trotting.
Well when you first ride your new horse you want to just get a feel for how the horse reins and how he or she reacts to your leg and hand signals. Your horse may have been trained differently then you, and you should just get the feel of him or her the first time you ride. Hopefully you have not bought the horse yet and you are just trying him or her out at the breeders, but if you have bought him of or her already, that is OK too.
Are you asking is it okay to ride a horse when they are on just hay? It is completely fine to ride a horse that is on just hay. My horse is fat as a cow and she was on all hay, no feed all summer. I rode her regularly.
you ride a minichre horse like someone would ride any other horse
Depends which headgear you are talking about. A headcollar is what you use to lead them and turnout etc. A bridle is what you ride with and you can get many different types. A headcollar can also be known as a halter.
Not necessarily, no. All you need to ride is the horse.
To get your horse bending.
You'll need: - A bridel { REINS} - a saddle - a place to ride - a saddle pad -a girth -a halter -a lead rope -a blanket - a good vet - a horse shoe person -a horse - a place to ride Last but not least you need love. If you dont love your horse your horse will not love you back and kick and bite you.
A Halter is usually used to lead a horse but you could ride with it, it is probably best to ride with a bridle though.
Ride It! Or use a head-collor/halter
well, when you walk into the arena or field or wherever you ride, you stop the horse with the reins, get on a mounting block or make your stirrups really long, hold your reins in your left hand and put that hand on the front of the saddle. your right hand goes on the back of the saddle and then you just swing on to the horse. The key here is to make sure your left hand has the reins tight enough so that your horse doesn't take off. (obviously, if you lengthened your stirrups before getting on, you would tighten it before you ride)
After hard work or a ride, you should cool out your horse. Just simply lead the horse around the arena in a walk without any tack on, just a halter, until his heart beat slows down and his sweat dries off. Let him drink also.
You will need many things, I would recommend contacting a professional in your area. But here are a few- If your horse is ride-able you will need- Saddle Saddle Pad Reins Bridle Grooming Supplies Halter Lead Rope If Your Stable doesn't have them- Lunge Line Feed LAND :D Barn This just scratches the surface you will need a Vet, Farrier and Dentist. Horses cost at LEAST $3,000 a year and are a HUGE commitment, be sure you are in a financial, physical, and mental position before buying a horse.
I have never heard of a western halter, and I ride western, so I guess you mean bridle. First of all, the dif in a halter and a bridle is a bridle is usually used to ride and a halter is generally used for groundwork and leading it from place to place. Although, you can use a bridle for leading and such, and I often ride in a halter. A western bridle is just a bridle used to ride western. They generally don't have a nose band like English bridles, and sometime they will have split ear headstalls. The bit can be many dif things. Their are shank bits which should only be used with well-trained horses, and then they have snaffle bits, which are also used for English. English also use shanks, but they look dif and are normally used in dressage. Other western bridles are the bosal and the hackamore, which are bit-less bridles. the bosal is more like a halter. It has a large nose band and the reins attach right under the horses nose. and a hackamore is more like a normall bridle, as in it has the shank part of a shank bit, but has nothing that goes in the mouth. The reins attach on the end of the shanks on each side of the bridle and when pulled back the nose band pushes down on the horses nose more than a bosal would. Hope this wasnt too confusing :)
If you go to the blue sky ranch, you need to buy a reins and get you horse from the barn.pull it close to the door and press b and the horse will leave the barn. go outside after it has left. walk to the side of the horse and press x and you will jump on your horse. do this for about a month and your horse will be fully trained!. I hope I helped! - Ashlie R.
The bridle that does not have a bit in it is called the hackamore. It looks just like a normal bridle, except there is nothing that goes into the horse's mouth. It is used to have a quicker responce from your horse (make them stop faster), because it cuts off the air supply in their nose when you pull on it. If you ride a horse in the hackamore, try to ride softly, and don't yank on the reins as much as you might if you were in a normal bit.
Riding bareback is fairly easy except for you have ho saddle so you are less balanced. if you are a new beginner to riding you may want someone to lead you around but if you arent than you can go by yourself. if you are riding bareback and your horse is wearing a bridle it will help to hold onto the main as well as the reins. hold tight with your legs but not to tight as to make your horse go faster. if you are riding with only a halter tied into reins i wouldn't sugest trotting.