Saddling Up Quiz

Saddling up

1 / 10

How should you apply saddle soap?

With a wet sponge

With a dry sponge

With your hands

2 / 10

Where should you pay particular attention to when wiping your saddle clean?

The seat of the saddle

The stirrup irons

Where sweat and horse hair gather

3 / 10

What do you need to remember to check carefully when cleaning your saddle?

Stitching on stirrup leathers and the girth

The buckle guards

The cantle

4 / 10

How should you clean stirrup irons?

You don’t need to clean them

With a bucket of warm water

With saddle soap

5 / 10

How should you store your saddle?

Outside in the rain

On your horse

On a saddle horse and covered with your saddle cloth to keep off dust

6 / 10

Before you start saddling up your stirrup irons should be

Run up on the leathers

Hanging down, ready for when you mount later

Crossed over the saddle

7 / 10

You should start by placing the saddle

In the middle of the horses back, you can then slide it backwards or forwards as much as you need

High up on the withers so you can slide it backwards slightly into the correct place

Anywhere on the pony’s back

8 / 10

The saddlecloth should be

Flat against the pony’s withers

Underneath the pony’s belly

Tucked up into the gullet of the saddle

9 / 10

You should do the girth up

Very tightly straight away – you don’t want the saddle slipping off!

Very loosely then tighten it after you have got on

Loosely to begin with then tighten it up just before you mount

10 / 10

It is best to put the saddle on

After the bridle, just before you are ready to mount

Before the bridle, to allow it to warm up and for your pony’s back to settle

Very first thing, before grooming your pony

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