I'm happy that you seem to have a gut feeling that using a tight
noseband is a bad idea. In fact, Gina, it is a stupid, cruel, and
utterly ignorant idea
which is inflicted on horses by people who know nothing at all about
horsemanship and who have no feeling and no care for the feeling in
my god. She is so right on. Backs and bits, she is THE source imo...
Janice
--
courage is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway--John Wayne
Dr. Deb on the tongue over the bit, and nosebands:
..in general there is only one reason that horses try persistently to get
their tongue over the bit -- and that is, that they are still at the stage
where they regard the bit as a foreign object in their mouth, and their
response to this is to
