Leather bitless bridle recommendation please....!

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I want to get Willow a leather cob sized bitless bridle but there seem to be a huge variety and various prices. Please can people tell me what they use and which make and how much ish they are for a decent one.

Many many thanks
 
I use a Dr Cooks - had it for four years, gets used all the time and the leather is still going strong. I think it was about £90 new.
 
If you need it for shows, the Dr Cooks are very smart. But there are a lot of good synthetic ones too.
I have a micklem multi bridle that can be used bitless. And looks quite nice. They are expensive tho, around £120.
I also use a libby's scrawbrig. Its synthetic, but costs around £30.
I normally just ride in a rope halter. Only got the micklem for shows.
 
I have a Dr Cooks western bridle which was £80 and a William Micklem, the first micklem one was £90 and the second one was £126 but they now do them without the lunge ring on the noseband
 
I have used a Dr Cooks but found my draft leaned on it - still would recommend it tho. If I were to buy another leather one - I would always replace the cross pull straps with the beta ones. I found leather ones stretched and then I was constantly worrying about the being uneven.

I like the LG bridle too but I have found it nigh on impossible to buy in that form - easier to get hold of a Marylot Flower bridle.

http://www.lgbridle.com/UserEmails.html

http://www.marylot.com/E_frame.html?http://www.marylot.com/Marylot_Flower_hackamore__E_art_129.html
 
I had seen the Micklem and the Dr Cooks but thought they were quite pricey. I had considered the Easytrek and various others on ebay but wondered if they were cheap and nasty and interestingly none of you have used them or recommend them so that is my answer :)

I will have to watch ebay for a secondhand leather Dr Cooks ( it's not for shows but I just love leather )
 
The Easytrek one looks OK - it's a fairly simple design so they have just copied it cheaper.

I got the Dr Cook's years ago when they were new - in the same position, I'd get the Easytrek one now as it's cheaper.
 
I have an Easytrek one too - works the same way as the Dr Cooks, but the leather is not such good quality, and even though it's younger than my 'genuine' Dr Cooks it looks older. But it was cheaper - so I guess you choose between getting one that's cheaper but doesn't last as long, or one that's more expensive but lasts!
 
kerilli said:
i've got a leather nurtural bitless which i use very occasionally (after dentist visits etc), it's lovely leather, v good quality, but wasn't cheap. can't remember exact price, prob don't want to!
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I've seen a few of these and they're very nice, with a number of quality level lines to chose from. They do seem to have a UK supplier now, although that must be fairly recent so that may explain why K's was very expensive:

http://www.bitlesshorse.co.uk/shop.html
 
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