This is the comprehensive set of mounted lesson plans for Red Level Horsemanship in the Learning Levels equine curriculum, containing 22 lessons for beginner Western riders, with suggestions for modifications.
The lessons shared here have all been used in our riding school and can be adapted to suit students of any age.
What’s included in the Red Level Horsemanship plans?
- Twenty-two separate lesson plans. The first four cover introductory ground handling; the remainder are written as traditional mounted lessons.
- Unmounted skills include: horse safety, grooming, tacking up, haltering and leading.
- Mounted skills include: mounting and dismounting, basic balanced position, using natural aids to guide the horse at the walk, arena figures and etiquette, emergency skills, walking over ground poles, riding at the jog, and riding outside the arena on the leadline.
- Additional teaching tips and cautionary notes.
You can use the bookmarks and links in the document’s Table of Contents to easily navigate to the following lessons:
- Safety First
- Catch and Release
- Follow Me, Friend
- Saddle Up
- Mounts and Dismounts
- Airplanes
- Stoplight
- Mountain Trail
- Survival Skills
- Ring Rules
- Get Over It
- Whoa and Go Poles
- Go For a Jog
- Ups and Downs
- Posting Practice
- In Good Hands
- Dress Rehearsal
- Elephant Bumblebees
- Merry Go Round
- Train Tracks
- Cattle Drive
- Out and About
NOTE: These lessons were previously available in separate sets of download files. The new single PDF file contains updated versions of ALL of those lesson plans — plus an introduction to teaching horsemanship lessons and a comprehensive explanation of Red Level Horsemanship objectives.
