This message is from: "Patryjak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you Jean for the websites CD-L, archives, and axwood farm! By following links from here, I found a really great article by Heike Bean on bits. In it she discusses curb bits vs. snaffle bits with excellent descriptions of the actions and consequences through the horse's body of both.
Since I recently sold my wonderful quarter horse to the Detroit Mounted Police, I have been having "educational" discussions with them regarding the use of high port, long-shanked curb bits. My horse had been trained using John Lyons methods and a full cheeked snaffle. The mounted unit's standard equipment is an ancient collection of the severe bits....and I, along with their new trainer, some of the volunteers, one or two of the more enlightened officers, are trying to teach them that mouth pain is not the best way to train horses. This article will help in that endeavor! Here is the site (which many of you probably already know....): www.trot-on.com/hbean.html Got a lot of good info combing through CD-L archives, too! Thanks again! Betsy, in squishy wet Michigan
