Let us know how it goes. I’m thinking of something like this for the young Arab I’m starting. Right now I have her in a French link, but she’s already let me know she’d prefer to go bitless. I’d love to hear your take on the little S.
p.s. Shadow has started a number of threads where he tells us exactly how he achieves his results. 
wow… I totally jumped off this because it was so straight forward and easy. little did I know.
um… Yeah I never really had an transition time, the only thing we did was we had rope halter/bridle things… so it was like a rope halter, not the stiff kind… and we would throw a thin biothane very simple headstall (just the strap over the poll) and a snaffle… you would snap in the reins to the rope halter through the snaffle rings… so you got some snaffle… but no direct contact. we used that for one mare who didn’t go as well on the rope bridle… but ours also had extra knots for the bidge of their nose. little more control. but she was happy as a pig in a pig pen with the snaffle combo. everyone else was fine in just the rope bridles.
I don’t ride my stallion in one… because well… I trust him and he is super well behaved… but well… he is a stallion and I don’t every put him in a lose lose situation. period. we almost always win that way.
that being said… I kind of understand what S14 is talking about. There are a ton of horses who are coddled and misbehave because parents lets him. its not an old woman thing… thats kind of annoying.
But there are horses who ARE well behaved. I would never leave my horse standing alone… I can… but never for an hour. he eats, so he wonders… and if a horse comes… he is all over them flirting or whatever. I will leave him hobbled. but other than that no, its not safe. Most people never believe me that I own a stallion, but like I said I do my best to set him up to win and don’t under any circumstances tolerate shinanigans. period.
maybe in all his 50 years of horses… S14 hasn’t run into enough horses… he is stuck way up there in the other land.
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What do you mean " up there in the other land"
We have our share of good horses too:lol::lol:
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Someone asked me to go into their back 40 and break this nice little mare. Can’t figure out her breeding but she sure gave me a rough time putting the saddle on
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totally awesome. I’d die laughing if I saw that, i can imagine that they are pretty handy if you can get past the antlers.
Personally I think the horse is overbitted. An elevator?? I mean, come on. A plain O-ring should do it! :lol: :lol: :lol:
How cool is that!?? I’m betting that little mare would be wonderful on the trail! :lol:
You could hang LOTS of your stuff on the antlers, too!! Uh, she will get antlers won’t she?
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