Hi Janice,
>in Lee Zeiglers book she says hackamores and bosals are not good for >gaited horses. They can bang when the head nods or swings as leverage >for gait, and it might give a gaited horse an aversion.... I don’t think many Icelandics have a head nod so it may not be so applicable in that situation. I have used mechanical type hackamores with Icelandics – one from a company called Madco and the other from Mylar. They both have a place that you can put two reins – the top rein has no leverage and just gives nose pressure (not meant to be low on the horse’s nose) – so you have a way to balance the horses. The bottom rein is a brake , should you need it. I think the use of the sidepull versus the rope halter is fairly debatable and about personal experience rather than right and wrong – IME the rope from underneath encourages more bracing in the base of the neck than the sidepull – but like everything I think it depends on the horse, the rider and the situation. Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com _____ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/632 - Release Date: 1/16/2007 4:36 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/632 - Release Date: 1/16/2007 4:36 PM
