Showing posts with label bitless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bitless. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Bitless bridle update

The bitless bridle experiment did not work. I have tried side pulls, cross-unders, hackamores and scawbrigs. No control when you really need it compared to a bit in a horse that has a good mouth and a one rein stop. Bella the TB did not like any of them either - you should have seen the 'FACE'!!

So, one scawbrig, one crossunder and one sidepull for sale - any takers?


Sunday, 10 October 2010

Transitioning a young TB to barefoot, bitless and treeless.

I bought Bella 1 month ago. She is a 3 yr. old TB, never raced, but broken at a racing yard.
From the day I bought her she has been a most unusual shape for a TB. Bella is croup high by 2" so she probably has a lot of growing left to do. She also has no withers at all and was in a Wintec 2000 saddle with a wide tree arch when I bought her. She was ridden in a french link snaffle and was shod all round.