i did not watch this all the way thru... it was boring :) But I would like to point out I have heard people say hackamores do not work with some gaited horses, especially a bosal because it will have an unintentional effect of discouraging gait, that when a horse head nods or has gaited head energy/motion the hack will go bump bump bump on the nose and they will alter gait from it.
I would not use this on a gaited horse. I use a sidepull, but if using a bosal like this I would first consider a "jaquima" like the paso people use altho i hesitate to even say that since altho they are ok for the horse maybe they are miserable to use. My cousin gave me a very expensive jaquima cause it was too large for his pasos and it had like a 30 ft piece of hard woven stiff rawhide woven right into the headstall part so you had to wrap it and hang it from your saddle at all times. Also the rawhide was so ungodly stiff it would take months of working it with oil to get it anywhere near soft as leather. But it was nice, looked nice, worked like a sidepull etc. But jeez a sidepull is cheaper and nicer and softer. A hackamore or bosal is not something I would use with a gaited horse. Even jaspar who does not headnod much, when he gets going good in his stepping pace I feel that a bosal would constantly knock his nose. jmo Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
