Splish & Masons mum
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A bit of background about us: my horse is an 8 year old, 15hh traditional cob, who I have had since he was 4. He was advertised as not your average cob and has proved to be exactly that! I would describe myself as a novice and have only ever ridden him in a simple French link/lozenge snaffle for everything including XC.
Anyway, after a lot of hard work and quite a few tears, hes finally going sensibly enough to be allowed out showing in public, and this year we managed to qualify for the Royal London Championships.
Well I was the only one on the whole Royal London showground in a snaffle (as the steward helpfully pointed out to me !) so my task over the winter is to get him (and me!) used to riding with double reins. He did used to be in a loose ring standard French link, but he seems more comfortable with and is currently in an NS team up:
so I thought to start with I would try a Pelham but with the team up mouthpiece. Ive had a look on the NS website and they dont seem to do this as an option the closest I can see is a trans angle lozenge Pelham,
but the lozenge is the other way around, and the side bits that attach to the lozenge (sorry if they have a proper name) look more angled. Can anyone tell me how this would act differently?
Do you think its worth going back to the French link mouthpiece with the Pelham sides? Or are there any other options that I havent thought of?
Any opinions and/or suggestions welcome, many thanks in advance!
oh, and this is us at a practice show the weekend before we went to Royal London.
Anyway, after a lot of hard work and quite a few tears, hes finally going sensibly enough to be allowed out showing in public, and this year we managed to qualify for the Royal London Championships.
Well I was the only one on the whole Royal London showground in a snaffle (as the steward helpfully pointed out to me !) so my task over the winter is to get him (and me!) used to riding with double reins. He did used to be in a loose ring standard French link, but he seems more comfortable with and is currently in an NS team up:
so I thought to start with I would try a Pelham but with the team up mouthpiece. Ive had a look on the NS website and they dont seem to do this as an option the closest I can see is a trans angle lozenge Pelham,
but the lozenge is the other way around, and the side bits that attach to the lozenge (sorry if they have a proper name) look more angled. Can anyone tell me how this would act differently?
Do you think its worth going back to the French link mouthpiece with the Pelham sides? Or are there any other options that I havent thought of?
Any opinions and/or suggestions welcome, many thanks in advance!
oh, and this is us at a practice show the weekend before we went to Royal London.