For instance, the guy > who invented the Noavel Headstall. I forget his name. He goes all > over giving clinics, selling videos, has been on rfdtv. Guess what > that headstall is?? A hackamore where the nose part is a piece of > heavy steel re-bar covered in leather. Do you know what rebar is? It > is heavy steel, ribbed, about a half inch in diameter, weighs tons. > And it is designed so if the horse acts up they go bump-bump with it. > So in the demo, which I have seen, when the horse tries all manner of > panicked desperate measure to be free of the pain of that device, > first rearing, then bucking, he finally submits, hanging his head a > foot from the ground, dazed, broken, then if you hang around, they > always wait til the show is way over to load their horses , watch as > they trailer load. It takes like 6 people with whips and the horse > rearing at the end of a lead. Monstrous.
Good Lord--that's sick!! I've never heard of that before. Sounds a bit like those horrible Easy-stop hackamores, which even the author of my favorite bit book deplores. Robyn S.
