bit help-please.

[HayleyUK]

Its been a long time since I've been online, the working world has claimed me as a prisoner

but hello anyway

I have a very nice 14.2 mare that I've been playing dressage at over the past few months. Her way of going is to fall in and stick her head up & out to counteract this.
I've worked on straightening her up through leg yields and encouraging her to soften her neck & jaw and as a reuslt we can work around the edge of the school quite nicely in walk & trot (circles are very much progressive).

Jumping i ride her in a dutch gag, on the top and 2nd rings (not the bottom one) & she seems to respect this, however, its not dressage legal so I was working her in a loose ring JP snaffle and find shes got no respect for it at all really, her answer is to throw her head up and run through my hand or lean and run through my hand when I ask her to soften. I've progressed onto a hanging cheek snaffle, to see if the poll pressure will help and whilst shes slightly better she still leans and pulls in it wheras in the gag she'll sit much lighter in my hand.

Can anyone suggest a bit that might help that is dressage legal?
Thanks
Hayley x

 

[madhector]

The hanging cheek does not provide poll pressure

 

[username223]

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The hanging cheek does not provide poll pressure

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It does lol "Also known as the Filet Baucher. An eggbutt sided plain mouth, single jointed, Hanging Cheek Snaffle, that is suspended in the mouth rather than resting, whitch makes it suitable for those horses that dislike too much weight on their tongues. The hanging cheeks tend to apply slight poll pressure in addition to the lips, toungue and bars. A kind bit that is stronger than an ordinary, single jointed snaffle. "
Tehe