> I think we could just as well go to "no nosebands", raise the level of > education of trainers, and not have any disputes about tightness of > nosebands :-)
i still think i'd like to put one on stjarni. it's a decoration, but it shows off the "broken blaze" aspect of his face markings (rather than the more usual "star and snip") and i think his (aka my) vanity is a harmless indulgence that way. since we don't have a throatlatch that fits, i suppose i could make the argument that it might keep us from losing the bridle entirely if it caught on a branch, but i don't really believe that about nosebands anyway. (or throatlatches. or browbands, which we also use, also because i think it's harmless and attractive.) with his winter beard i fasten stjarni's caveson at the loosest hole to avoid pulling hair, and you could stick your whole hand through if you really felt like it. *shrug* then again i am a trainer of riders, not horses, except most incidentally my own (and most of our training is him of me, not the other way around....) --vicka
