Nosebands, what do you use ?

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What noseband do you use and what do you use it for as in what affect and action does it have on your horse ?

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Big horses are ridden in cavessons done up slightly on the tight side and small horse has a cavesson done up as loose as it will go (so I can attach a head check to it).
 
use grakle on one to stop him crossing his jaw, then drop noseband for dressage. another has a flash to keep his tongue in his mouth. the third just has a normal noseband because he's a good boy!!
 
a flash to try and keep his gob shut and stop him pi55ing of with me! rarely works though!
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the grackle - does it help with brakes ???

I have h now working well back in a snaffle but have some issues with brakes. i dont like flashes and a cavesson is not quite enough. I am so chuffed to have him back in a snaffle I dont want to change his bit. He is ok most of the time but has his moments which I can't tell he is going to have until he has one, so no option of knowing to use a stronger bit etc !!!!!

prob makes no sense !!!
 
Sol just wears a plain cavesson . She opens her gob quite alot though so I supposse she should have a flash but shes only a baby
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Nothing normally but if my mare starts to open her mouth I put a flash on her until she's ok without a noseband.
She gets an itchy face so don't like to use unneccessary things.
 
cavesson for schooling, no use apart from looks really! Grackle for hacking to stop him crossing his jaw and pissing off!
 
a grakle took our tb from strongish bits to a happy mouth snaffle as he had to respect what he had in his mouth. worked really well and dressage became loads softer but its banned BD (typical)
 
Drop because B opens his mouth otherwise and he hates a flash, tends to fight against it a lot. Drop also helps with breaks when hacking as he keeps the contact rather than trying to fight it.
 
Cavesson for everything. She's never needed anything else, although we did use a grackle at one time for....er.....'fashionable' reasons
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Always done up very loose though, it never served any purpose!
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Sometimes in the summer I ride without a noseband altogether when hacking; less unneccessary leather to make her sweat!
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Nothing - Marnie has a couple of scars on her nose that I think must have been from a too-tight headcollar before I bought her. If I put a noseband on her, they rub. She doesn't really need one, so I leave it off - less to clean too
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A drop normally, not tight but he seems to settle with it. When we jump either a normal cavesson or a rope noseband purely to attach the martingale to.
New one is in a grackle, will hunt a drop for her too as I really dont rate flash nosebands at all.
 
I use a loose flash on Solo, with his sweet iron/copper snaffle- although he can open his mouth a tiny bit with it, he backs off it if it's tight. I hack him out in a standing martingale, so can't use a drop.

Red has a cavesson for everyday, with his hanging cheek, but a grackle for hunting or jumping, with his dutch gag, as he crosses his jaw, puts his head down, and p*sses off.
 
i use a plain cavisson on all my own horses.
my ISH is very sensitive and cannot stand a noseband done up too tightly.
whe she was a youngster i was told by someone 'knowledgable' to put a flash on her as she kept opening her mouth and throwing her head up.she started rearing and they told me to put a martingale on.and the rearing got much bigger.
have had horses on loan who have had flashs on-owners choice.they rode the same with them on and off for me so i dont think any of them 'needed' one but if thats what the owner wanted i wasnt too bothered.
 
Cavesson or no noseband for flatwork, hacking etc, and same for jumping.

I did use a grakle on Blue for jumping previously but he has improved a lot and i haven't used it much the past 6months-year.
 
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