What sort of tack do I need?

There are many, many different sorts of horse gear, and this guide may help you choose what you need.

Saddles- Wintec, Bates, what to choose? That depends on what you are looking for, if you are looking for a dressage saddles the best to go for are the leather saddles, Wintec saddles make great dressage saddles but for more advice contact your local horseland store, saddle store, or horse shop. All purpose saddles can be leather saddles or synthetic, but for a better longer lasting hight quality saddle would have to be leather and that aswell, to find more information contact your horse shop. Do not buy a random saddle that you think will suit your horse or buy it even before you have a horse, make sure you get it fitted although that may be a little more expensive you would rather pay for that then buy a new saddle.

Bridles- Bridles also have to be fitted, mostly the bit, some horses feel uncomfortible with a sort of a bit so you wi;ll have to have the previous owner to tell you what sort of a bit the horse needs or just go to you vet or dentist to check. NEVER wet leather, it will rot and it will be usless.

Helmets- Helmets are the most importent part of horse gear!!! When you go to buy one get a properly fitted and if you find a helmet in a bin or somewhere else other than a shop and it is not yours, DO NOT take it! The owner before may have had a fall and helmets only have proper resitence if you don't drop it hard on the ground! If you have a bad fall or just hit your helmet on the ground or even a fall that hits your helmet and shatters it don't were it and destroy it so no one else were's it!

Shoes- Don't were laced shoes unless they are properly ajusted into the boots, make sure the boot has a heel of no bigger or no smaller then 1cm. Check in the shoe is too tight on your feet or too wide for the stirrups or too big for your shoe.

Pants- Pants cannot be wide so it always gets hit against the horses side and sometimes the horse can get spooked.