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| Training and other debates aside....what are your go - to bits to help encourage less flex in turns? Horse is question is a very hard running horse. Thanks! |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | /Streakin/ - 2014-02-18 11:44 AM Training and other debates aside....what are your go - to bits to help encourage less flex in turns? Horse is question is a very hard running horse. Thanks!
For a hard running horse that's too bendy I really like the Connie Combs Stabilizer bit. I've got 2 hanging in my trailer and love them! I bought my first one for my stud horse and also use them for when we breeze our horses in the open fields. Greg Darnall makes them for Connie and they come in 2 shank lengths. Its one of my go to bits. |
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| I generally go to an s shank hack, or an o ring combo bit, depends on the entire run |
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| I have a mullen mouth lifter bit and a Jim Warner hackamore. JW is my main choice. The mullen has a little too much whoa for my guy, but when I'm working slow it's ok. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Anything mullen mouth piece or my outside hand...you know, like back in the day when I could survive a turn riding it two handed, LOL!!!  |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | Connie Combs Stabilizer bit!!!!
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | None of my horses liked my Connie stabilizer bit, not enough tongue relief, so I sold it. I do agree that Mullen mouth is the way to go. My other bits are either rubber/plastic or have more curve to the mouth. |
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| Tightening up the curb strap will also square a horse up too! |
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Location: Benton City, WA | zansbeunogal_2268 - 2014-02-18 11:04 AM Tightening up the curb strap will also square a horse up too!
I agree with this.
I often exercise/ warm up my super bendy horse in a hinge port bit... it keeps him straight and it's great for keeping him collected. He is also a free runner, I have ran him in the port, but I don't like the feel. He runs great in the twisted dog bone mouthpiece long shank sherry cervi bit. I use it witg a curb chain on him, so its fairly stiff. |
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What Bits Do You Like to Help Stiffen Up a Bendy Horse?