Teaching Guide – Yellow HorseSense – Tack Talk

Use this teaching guide with Yellow Level HorseSense students for unmounted lessons that teach students to correctly clean and condition tack, knowing reasons for each step, and to efficiently reassemble a saddle and bridle.

How often do you clean your tack? How often do you wish you had a barn full of working students to clean your tack for you? Caring for all of the leather in your barn can be a BIG job. If you want your students to help with this task, either by wiping down tack after each ride or participating in a thorough deep cleaning, you’ll need them to be well-trained. Quality tack is too expensive to sacrifice!

At HorseSense, we encourage students to wipe down sweaty or slobbery tack after a ride, and to participate in a weekly cleaning session. Once a month, everything gets taken apart for a thorough inspection and deep conditioning. In order for students to be helpful participants, we need to feel confident that they will get the leather really clean; that they know how to select and use appropriate tack-cleaning products; and that they can reassemble the tack independently – even complicated bits and bridles!

Lessons cover:.