If someone just says 'loose ring snaffle'..

Yes , loose ring snaffle will be eggbutt mouthpiece and loose ring cheeks. Be aware , just incase you didnt know , a single joint when you use your reins will push downwards onto the tongue which will be uncomfortable and stop your horse from being able to swallow , so try to go for a frenchlink or mullen mouth so your horse can move his tongue and swallow .... happy horse !
 
Loose ring just means the rings are loose (fed through a hole in the mouth piece) as opposed to fixed as in an eggbut or D ring. But the mouth piece can be anything, straight bar, single jointed, French link, lozenge, waterford. They are all snaffles.
 
Yep, I know loose rings (and other snaffles) can come with any mouth piece, mullen or lozenge or waterford or french link and probably about one hundred others! Just wondered if you were simply told loose ring snaffle whether you'd automatically assume a single jointed one or anything else :) and wow, never thought that about single jointed ones! I tend to prefer ones with lozenges anyway, but at my last RS it was the norm to have a single jointed one xx
 
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bj666 said:
Yes , loose ring snaffle will be eggbutt mouthpiece and loose ring cheeks. Be aware , just incase you didnt know , a single joint when you use your reins will push downwards onto the tongue which will be uncomfortable and stop your horse from being able to swallow , so try to go for a frenchlink or mullen mouth so your horse can move his tongue and swallow .... happy horse !
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No it doesn't.
 
Yes, loose rings and single jointed mouthpiece is what I first think of.


bj666 said:
Yes , loose ring snaffle will be eggbutt mouthpiece and loose ring cheeks. Be aware , just incase you didnt know , a single joint when you use your reins will push downwards onto the tongue which will be uncomfortable and stop your horse from being able to swallow , so try to go for a frenchlink or mullen mouth so your horse can move his tongue and swallow .... happy horse !
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There are so many errors in that it is laughable.
 
tallyho! said:
No it doesn't.
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This. I do wish people wouldn't just pull information out of their bottoms.
Snaffle bits have rings; the reins and cheek pieces move along the ring allowing the mouthpiece to sit comfortably in the mouth. Undeniably the action of a french link is gentler than that of a single-joint, but it's not because the joint 'pushes downwards' on the tongue. If anything, a single joint would dig into the roof of the mouth.
 
bj666 said:
Be aware , just incase you didnt know , a single joint when you use your reins will push downwards onto the tongue
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Only if you were to put it in back to front (if that is at all possible) :D
Otherwise, it is more likely to actually stab the roof of the mouth...

ETS: PF, you beat me to it.
 
bj666 said:
Yes , loose ring snaffle will be eggbutt mouthpiece and loose ring cheeks. Be aware , just incase you didnt know , a single joint when you use your reins will push downwards onto the tongue which will be uncomfortable and stop your horse from being able to swallow , so try to go for a frenchlink or mullen mouth so your horse can move his tongue and swallow .... happy horse !
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One word (or 3 if you want)... LOL!

And no, not a single joint, but i refer to it as any mouthpiece with a loose ring threaded through holes in the mouth piece (and of course no additions to the ring...eg. Tom Thumb) :)
 
All my snaffles (yes, I've managed to fall for a few different types) are single jointed.
Only because I can't see the point of a beany lozenge mcThingy.

When someone says loose ring snaffle I see in my head a plain ol' racing snaffle with large rings and one joint however, the beany mcthingy's are all the rage nowadays.
 
VioletStripe said:
I thought this also :o but surely if the bit is used properly and fits the horse it wouldn't impede its ability to swallow and move the tongue? xx
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No, it would only have that effect if it were fitted backwards. I'm afraid the previous poster was talking out of her bottom as PF pointed out. Perhaps because she had her mouth full at the time?
 
VioletStripe said:
I thought this also :o but surely if the bit is used properly and fits the horse it wouldn't impede its ability to swallow and move the tongue? xx
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An overtight noseband is, IMO, FAR more likely to prevent a horse being able to swallow and/or move his tongue. A loose noseband will, after all, allow a horse to open his mouth shoud the bit cause discomfort.
 
VioletStripe said:
I thought this also :o but surely if the bit is used properly and fits the horse it wouldn't impede its ability to swallow and move the tongue? xx
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In theory but you do see a few slobbering all over themselves which would tell anyone with half a nut that the horse ISN'T swallowing it's own juices.
 
Possibly:D, I was really referring to the first two letters of her name but the joke seems to have rather missed!:eek:
 
Glad I wasnt the only one who laughed at the second post. I was confusesd by the eggbutt mouth piece thing too. Notice how said poster has now gone rather quiet :cool:. But as for the question I dont really have a specific mouth piece that I think of.
 
jemima_too said:
No, it would only have that effect if it were fitted backwards. I'm afraid the previous poster was talking out of her bottom as PF pointed out. Perhaps because she had her mouth full at the time?
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GypsyTheCob said:
maybe she had an upside-down snaffle in her mouth so she couldnt speak properly? :p
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jemima_too said:
Possibly:D, I was really referring to the first two letters of her name but the joke seems to have rather missed!:eek:
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I thought you were referring to her having a snaffle in her mouth.

jemima_too...I'm shocked :eek: :eek: :eek:

For the record, I do assume loose-ring snaffle means a single jointed snaffle. Dunno why I assume that, as both of mine are in french links...!
 
This thread has made me chuckle,
Said poster seems to be quite keen on bitting judging by many, many similar previous posts.
Scary how someone so interested/knowledgeable (?) has got it so wrong!

To answer the question, a loose ring snaffle IMO is just that, a snaffle type bit with loose rings, but the mouthpiece can always vary.
 
When someone says "Loose ring snaffle" I automatically think of a single jointed bit with loose rings. Anything else would be described differently such as a loose ring french link, wouldn't it? :confused:
 
gonebananas said:
When someone says "Loose ring snaffle" I automatically think of a single jointed bit with loose rings. Anything else would be described differently such as a loose ring french link, wouldn't it? :confused:
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But french link is the mouthpiece type, not the type of bit as such.
 
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