Question in the title.
I know some people buy a horse or start a horse and it stays in the same bit for life. Wouldn't that make life easier if we could all do that.
Mine has had an eggbutt snaffle since backing, she is happy in that. She went through a phase around 6 years of what I think they call pig rooting. So in canter the head is basically on the floor, you can't get it back up, turn, stop, you are literally a passenger. Well and truly on the forehand because you can't stop it going either.
Don't ask me why I tried a French link eggbutt but she didn't lean after that-I would not have been able to stop her at all had she done one though!! It felt like I was going from the frying pan into the fire!! Used it for about two weeks.
We need something else for fast work now. I am doing the dreaded search.
I know some people buy a horse or start a horse and it stays in the same bit for life. Wouldn't that make life easier if we could all do that.
Mine has had an eggbutt snaffle since backing, she is happy in that. She went through a phase around 6 years of what I think they call pig rooting. So in canter the head is basically on the floor, you can't get it back up, turn, stop, you are literally a passenger. Well and truly on the forehand because you can't stop it going either.
Don't ask me why I tried a French link eggbutt but she didn't lean after that-I would not have been able to stop her at all had she done one though!! It felt like I was going from the frying pan into the fire!! Used it for about two weeks.
We need something else for fast work now. I am doing the dreaded search.