By correct bitting and a proper adjustment of the coupling reins the differences in the dispositions of the two horses can be equalized, and they can be made to go well together.
If your bitting has been thoroughly done, and your horse's mouth is fine and sensitive, you will probably find the snaffle best for trotting, and you will give a steady support with it.
Horses that have their heads drawn up tightly should not have the bitting on more than fifteen or twenty minutes at a time.
Many horses have been killed by falling backward with thebitting on, their heads being drawn up, strike the ground with the whole weight of the body.
If you put the bitting on very tight the first time, he cannot raise his head enough to loosen it, but will bear on it all the time, and paw, sweat and throw himself.
Farmers often putbitting harness on a colt the first thing they do to him, buckling up the bitting as tight as they can draw it to make him carry his head high, and then turn him out in a lot to run a half day at a time.
Farmers often put bitting harness on a colt the first thing they do to him, buckling up the bitting as tight as they can draw it, to make him carry his head high, and then turn him out in a field to run a half-day at a time.
Many horses have been killed by falling backward with the bitting on; their heads being drawn up strike the ground with the whole weight of the body.
If you put the bitting on very tight the first time, he cannot raise his head enough to loosen it, but will bear on it all the time, and paw, sweat, and throw himself.
But you may be sure of this, that the bitting of grooms is generally too severe, and the hands of a man who rides all his horses in martingales, snaffles, and complicated arrangements of bit and bridle, are sure to be wrong.
Bitting is, as a rule, not sufficiently considered.
Few owners are aware how much “manners” depend upon the bitting and handling of a horse.
Let him see that the rein is on the proper bar of the bit; else, if the horse has been accustomed to be driven from one bar, and his bitting is suddenly altered, his manners will probably change at the same time.
Men do not mean to be cruel to horses when bitting them improperly, but they are so nevertheless--to a terrible degree.
It often happens that from improper bitting horses acquire an ugly trick of working their tongues over the mouthpiece.
I do not consider that any animal is so who requires a curb; but the subject of bitting is of too great importance to be merely touched upon here.
Correct bitting will ensure complete control, or ought to do so, without inflicting pain.
Persons are at times found to express such mad ideas about horses and bitting that to reply to them is only to encourage their folly.
Severity in bitting is, in my opinion, very rarely necessary; and taking into account the cruelty of it, I dislike it excessively, and always cry it down.
If the bitting and saddling are right, a touch with the whip given behind the girth will generally prove effective.
Besides, riding men usually know more about the bittingand handling of horses than women, and are therefore better able to impart instruction in this branch of equitation.
If a steady animal commences to dance without any exciting cause, such as the prospect of a hunt, his bitting and girthing up should be carefully examined, as there may be something hurting him, or the saddle may be pinching his back.
But the bitting exercises, previously described, should be occasionally reverted to as long as the horse is used under the saddle.
It does not really matter if the jaw of the horse does get a little rigid; that can be softened by the bitting exercises and by future lessons, but the horse must go into the bridle.
It needs to be added, that in harnessing four all the details of fit and stoutness of leather and proper bitting should be more than ever looked after.
The bitting rig may now be used to give the colt a good mouth, a most essential thing, for there is no comfort in driving a horse with a mean mouth.
Outside of here and there a horse who, on account of bad early training or from ill-usage or from fracture, it is impossible to bit so that he will go comfortably, the matter of bits and bitting is a matter of patience and experiment.
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