jules9671
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i am wondering if anyone has advice on dr cooks bitless bridle,whats its like to use and if the horse gets used to it quite quickly.
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bitless bridle
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kcgibson
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I tried a bitless bridle (wanted to try a cooks but i had a monty roberts training headcollar so used that insead). It started off quite well but as soon as my horse realised that he could bugger off with me and i didnt have much control, he took the p**s!! lol! I really liked the idea of it but it just didnt work for me. There have been many posts on this before and there are mixed views but generally people seem to have a problem with the brakes-particularly in faster work. Ive since been told that if you are wanting to ride in a bitless, you need to train the horse to 'go' in it (which is perfectly understandable when you think about it but i think most of us tend to think that the horse will jut 'know' what to do when he is put in one.) I think with the correct training you may get on ok (or your horse may just be ok in one if you try it, as other people seem to have done this and their horse went ok in it). What i was told to do is ride in both bridles at the beginning. You need to remove the nose band from your normal bridle and you obviously need two sets of reins. You can ride in the bitless and leave the bitted reins over your horse's neck. If you need to pick up the bitted reins, they are there to hand. You may feel safer this way. As i said, i personally didnt get on with a bitless as my horse seemed to think it was funny to bugger off with me! Altho i know that some people have managed fine. Hope that helps!
Chex
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I tried a bitless bridle (wanted to try a cooks but i had a monty roberts training headcollar so used that insead). It started off quite well but as soon as my horse realised that he could bugger off with me and i didnt have much control, he took the p**s!! lol! I really liked the idea of it but it just didnt work for me.
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That was exactly the same as my experience of them.
I tried a bitless bridle (wanted to try a cooks but i had a monty roberts training headcollar so used that insead). It started off quite well but as soon as my horse realised that he could bugger off with me and i didnt have much control, he took the p**s!! lol! I really liked the idea of it but it just didnt work for me.
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That was exactly the same as my experience of them.