The better plan is to keep the snaffle moving and sawing in his mouth, and from time to time take a sharp pull at the curb.
It is a pity that the reverse system has never been tried, and a regiment of cavalry taught riding on English fox-hunting principles, using the snaffle on the road, and rising in the trot.
You should use a large, smooth, snaffle bit, so as not to hurt his mouth, with a bar to each side, to prevent the bit from pulling through either way.
A single snaffleand a sharp curb-bit were placed in the horse's mouth; the former to ride and guide by.
The snaffle may be added when he goes freely in the head-stall.
To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.
It may be necessary to add that success with the snafflepresupposes a fine seat and some experience, as tact and skill must replace the loss of leverage.
I consider the "Baucher" snaffle the best, as the bars on either side prevent it from slipping into the horse's mouth under a strong lateral pressure.
Under the more modern system the double bit is often replaced by a simple snaffle with one direct rein and one passing through a running martingale.
In France and in this country the reins are crossed, the curb being below, outside the little finger, and between the third and middle fingers, while the snaffle comes between the fourth and middle and the second and first fingers.
While a plain snaffle is preferable for most horses, it will not always answer.
The bridle should be so fitted that thesnaffle lies snugly up in the corners of the horse's mouth without pressing against the lips.
The snaffle is the bit for the beginner, because he can do little harm with it; and it is the bit for the accomplished horseman, because in his hands it has a great range of effects.
The curb-bit should never be used without the snaffle, as there are often occasions when the powers of the curb-bit alone are ineffectual, and the snafflemust go to its assistance.
The snaffle must keep the head of the horse at the proper height, for the tendency of the curb is to depress the head, and the face of the horse should be kept about vertical to the ground, certainly not any nearer the chest.
Defn: To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
The horses were ridden without whips, and with spurs so blunt that they could not hurt even a human skin, and were ruled by the voice and a slight pressure on the light snaffle bridle.
An illustration of this fastidiousness was afforded by his going such a distance for his snaffle bridle.
This delay in the arrangement of the snaffle bridle did not allow Charley Culnane to pay so long a visit as he had at first intended to his old friend and gossip, Con Buckley, of the "Harp of Erin.
Irish horses are the best jumpers we have, and their excellence may justly be ascribed to the fact that, for the most part, they are ridden in the snaffle bridle.
Part ofsnaffle bit, jointed mouthpiece lozenge-shaped junction of bit and rein loop.
The object, whose shape resembles the terminal from a cheekpiece of a snaffle bit, has been broken at the narrow end, suggesting that it was too light in construction to have been intended for such a purpose.
Cheekpiece from snaffle bit, iron, incomplete, angular knee with hole for linking element between rein and bit.
In jumping, at first the pupil should ride entirely upon the snaffle rein.
But still it is simply impossible to do this without acting on the snaffle or bit rein, as the case may be, on one side or the other, as long as the reins are attached to a bit of any sort.
In deep ground a horse requires holding together, and no lady could do this with a snaffle bridle.
By degrees, as the pupil learns to command her horse riding in this form she must be instructed once more to give free and mobile action to the arm at the shoulder joint, as when riding on both snaffle and curb reins.
The right hand should then be placed firmly on the near side upper crutch of the saddle, the snaffle rein held between the pommel and the hand, the whip in the full of it.
All these exercises should then be practised in the same order as when the pupil rode, assisted by or on the snaffle only.
If a horse is inclined to lag, or go up against the bit, raise the snaffle in his mouth and lower the curb.
Another way of holding the reins when riding on the curb is to separate the two curb reins with the little finger of the left hand and the two snaffle reins with the middle finger.
This is attached to the front of the breastplate and has two branches ending in rings, through which the snaffle reins are passed.
On the following morning the card of Captain Snaffle was handed to her, but she excused herself from appearing on the plea of indisposition.
The two friends left the Fusiliers' mess room, Harry Racer trotting off to inspect some new horses that he had got scent of, and Snaffle to his own quarters.
The third day after the ball, Captain Snaffle again presented himself at Lady Chutny's bungalow, and was informed that her ladyship had left town, and would, in all probability be absent some weeks.
But Captain Snaffle was a gentleman, and had no idea of trading upon the necessities of others, be they who they might.
Emily Barton represented, with very good effect, Maid Marion, under the escort of young Snaffle of the Lancers, who rode over from the nearest Garrison Town to captivate some stray heart by personating Young Lochinvar.
I will have a handsome monument erected over her remains, and the place shall be nicely laid out with shrubs and flowers, and kept in good order while I live;" But Captain Snaffle thought otherwise.
It has the true ring of spur and snaffle combined with poetic treatment—a conjunction not so easy of attainment as might be supposed.
In the direct flexion of the jaw, ought we to give a tension to the curb-reins and those of the snaffle at the same time?
The man can repeat with the curb what he has previously done with the snaffle-reins; but the snaffle should always be employed first, its effect being less powerful and more direct.
The flexion to the left is executed in the same way, the rider employing alternately the snaffle and curb-reins.
No, we must make the snaffle precede (the hand being placed as indicated in Plate No.
He will only exact that the pupil ride, at first, straight before him, then in every direction, one rein of the snaffle in each hand.
The man will place himself as for the lateral flexions of the jaw; he will take hold of the reins of the snaffle with the left hand, at six inches from the rings, and the curb-reins at about two inches from the bit.
Bring two hunting saddles and bridles, and some of the snaffle bits that I like.
Double bridle; a snaffle and a curb rein in each hand.
Snaffle-bit: Is the mildest bit used in driving a horse: there are two kinds, the plain snaffleand the twisted, and the latter form may be made to act very severely.
The little finger of the left hand is also to be passed between the left snaffle and curb reins, in a similar manner to that just described, and the reins must be held firm by the thumb and forefinger of this hand.
Besides, it makes the snaffle a little tighter than the curb, and that is held to be a good thing in England.
Call the knob straps the snaffle reins, and the keyhole straps the curb, and, sitting near enough to let them lie in your lap, practice picking them up and adjusting them with your eyes shut.
Once on our horses, the position we had to assume was explained, and we were also taught how to hold our reins and how to direct our animals (we had only a snaffle on our bridles).
The reins should then be transferred to the left hand, with the snaffle on the outside, and the curb inside, but loose.
If he pulls with his head down, almost between his knees, the curb must not be touched, but the snaffle should be felt and the hands held higher than usual and a little farther forward, playing with his mouth.
The snaffle should then be gradually and quietly shortened until there is a light but firm feeling on the reins, when a pressure of the leg (not of the heel, which might suggest a spur) will put him to a trot.
Buckling a strap to the snaffle rein, which held it in front of the saddle, and throwing the stirrup iron over, he passed to the head of the other horse, whose rein he took in a firm grasp.
Holding her in by means of the snaffle alone had been quite as much as I had been able to accomplish during the last ten minutes, and this escapade on the part of Punch brought the matter to a crisis.
It was an infernal shame, because I knew Harris of the Ghuznees would be covering that ground three months later, and he'd snaffle all the chaps I had my eyes on.
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