Dont you just hate it.......

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when people seesaw their poor horses mouths just to get the horses head looking pretty. it angers me SO much! and the worst thing is that SO many people do it! it makes the horse look so false and restricted and WRONG! and they develop the wrong muscles and learn to evade and overbend which looks even worse! its all just because they are too lazy to use their seat and legs to ride the horse properly into the bridle. blah blah sorry for the rant but it needed to be said! lol
 
Unfortunately it's not just lazyness, some people are uneducated and ignorant on how to actually get a horse to go in an outline. There's is nothing worse than seeing a horse being yanked in at the front and then booted on with spurs - in my view it is out and out cruelty.
 
YEP couldn't agree with you more. My mare who is well schooled and carries herself in a natural outline was ridden by someeone more 'experienced' than me a few days ago who sawed on her mouth non-stop for 20 minutes until i yelled at her to get off!!

I got on the next day and when I trotted on she was swinging her head from side to side anticipating more sawing. I'm still trying to persuade her that it is ok to work into the contact and I'm not going to saw but no luck so far - I think her mouth is sore.

And if anyone still does it, try this....

Take the bit that you use attatched to a pair of reins and place the mouthpiece on the underside of your arm.(like this)

http://www.newrider.com/Kinder_Way/Snaffle_demonstration100.jpg

ask a friend to take up a 'rein contact' and saw on the reins. I tried it with a french link snaffle and I have bruises, it hurts like hell!!
 
Once watched an 'instructor' 'schooling' a youngster at our yard and had to walk away. Niggle with the hands, niggle with the legs, the poor animal was as stiff as a board and looked utterly miserable. Owner thought it looked fab, which was even worse...
 
I think it is awful that people do this i always see kids a small shows doing jumping and they are hanging off the horses mouth and sawing and then wacking it when it won't do what is asked. I just want to pull the kid off for the animals sake.
 
i think some people get it mixed up and think they are playing/feeling the rein when actually they are sawing away
i "feel" the reins to encourage tabs to go into an outline then when she is in one i stop as she has always overbent since i had her (probs someone sawing at her mouth before)
some people carry on to keep them in an outline and the horse usually overbends
 
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