Bit of a strange one...

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sazamc

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I was just wondering if anyone else had encountered this or heard of this.

My friend had a sharer for her horse who kept readjusting the bridle (the fit was fine so this was irritating in itself). The last straw really was the noseband (plain cavesson) being threaded through the browband on one side as normal, twisted around the headpiece (so the edge of the leather would be digging in behind the ear) and then completely bypassing the other side of the browband and dropping it two holes clear of where it should have been.

The explaination for this was that it "reduces poll pressure". Neither my friend, the yard owner or me have ever seen or heard such nonsense but she was determined that she had been told this on good authority. Have we missed something?
 
sazamc said:
Possibly...
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I suspect that is probably the case. If your friend likes how this girl rides, and finds her useful, then perhaps a quick lesson in tack might help? Show her an example of a comfort bridle, and then show her how what she has done is not even slightly similar, and explain why?
 
Lady La La said:
I suspect that is probably the case. If your friend likes how this girl rides, and finds her useful, then perhaps a quick lesson in tack might help? Show her an example of a comfort bridle, and then show her how what she has done is not even slightly similar, and explain why?
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Well my friend very politely asked her to stop readjusting the tack as it was fine beforehand - which is valid I think. As some have said already "my horse, my tack". The sharer then flew off the handle a bit and without going into details the arrangement is now at an end.

I was just genuinelly wondering if this was something that anyone had heard of. As none of us have and she was determined her way was the right way.
 
sazamc said:
Well my friend very politely asked her to stop readjusting the tack as it was fine beforehand - which is valid I think. As some have said already "my horse, my tack". The sharer then flew off the handle a bit and without going into details the arrangement is now at an end.

I was just genuinelly wondering if this was something that anyone had heard of. As none of us have and she was determined her way was the right way.
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Understandable then, if she behaved in that kind of manner.
I haven't heard of anything like it, but I assume she was attempting to recreate a comfort headpiece...
 
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