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Location: Somewhere around here | What's your favorite piece of equipment from these three? Why? Do you like them all or maybe dislike them all? Why? |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Each piece has their own place in the training of a horse.
What exactly are you looking to get out of your horse? This will tell you which piece of equipment to use. |
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| None of them, but I am older and priorities have certainly changed, lol. Also I have discovered some new training methods based on movement science, motivation, emotion and behavioral studies that I am learning and researching. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | IRunOnFaith - 2018-02-15 2:58 PM
Each piece has their own place in the training of a horse.
What exactly are you looking to get out of your horse? This will tell you which piece of equipment to use.
I'm not looking for anything, I'm just curious about people and what they like. Just making conversation  |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I don't use any, haven't needed one for years. But if needed, a tie down. Just don't get the idea of the others with my style of training.
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Location: Texas | I have won a lot using a tiedown so it's definitely something I keep in my tack room. I like either a double rope noseband with a nylon strap or a rope tiedown that has a sliding rope noseband.
I wouldn't be able to answer on headsetters or bonnets as they aren't anything I spent time learning about. |
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| I've heard the term headsetter and bonnet used interchangeably, so if someone could explain the difference that would be great. I always thought a headsetter had a rope piece over the nose and a bonnet only goes above the eyes.
To answer your question, on my particular horse I like a leather bonnet. He gets too bound up in a tie down and way too bound up in a headsetter. I run in a bonnet and a mullen mouth bit because he gets so bendy and it helps stiffen him up.
Also going to be honest, I use it to keep his head down on our way to the first barrel. He's currently being seasoned and gets so wound up wanting to run that we run blindly to the first. He'll tuck his nose and give to me but it's ugly. I know it's sort of a shortcut, but we're working on it and eventually I hope we'll be able to take it off. |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | Tie down for me. I have one horse who has a very high headset and if you do not ride with one he will break your nose, especially if he gets excited. He lovessss tossing that head up and down when you try to keep him slow. Theres no way i could ever run him without one. And yes, hes been to a professional trainer that knows what shes doing. Its just him. lol |
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| I've used tie downs before, and considering putting one on my gelding. He'll carry himself well most of the time, but when he gets pumped up or frustrated his head goes up and his brain rolls out of you know where. We're working on basics and getting a foundation filled back in, but he's smart enough that if he learns he can get away with even part of it once, he will test it for several rides. We're miles ahead of where we were last fall.
As for headsetters and bonnets, I'm not sure when they're to be utilized. I wouldn't try them without some serious digging and explaining on when you should start considering using those. I've had people tell me, as a child, that bonnets were called brain cords and that they'd severely injure the horse if they acted up. I know better now, but that created a stigma about them for me. |
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| I have one horse that is not real head broke. A tie down helps him a lot but it has to be on his head in just the right spot--dropped down real low. Retired him a few years ago |
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Location: New Mexico | Bonnet because it keeps the head down but doesn't restrict the nose. |
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| My fav is a piggin string/rope nose tie-down. It helps one collect for the turn and use themselves. Some really need help physically collecting going fast and using themselves they need to "brace" and I'll put a leather tie-down on them. If they aren't paying a bit of attention or pushing hard on a tie down I'll go to a bonnet. I like a bonnet the best actually but some horses really feel trapped by one and get "butt- hurt" about the contact. Others really like it and use themselves better with one.
I'll put a wire bonnet on one:wire, chain, or nylon it depends on how sensitive they are. I'll work them in the round pen with each on first, see how they react and go from there. I"m a big loomis with a wire at the top fan so my horses are usually used to pole pressure.
I feel like most ppl on here flame head gear but it is a useful tool.
Any colt that I get straight gets put in a tie down or a bonnet because you never know who will get them and they need to be used to all headgear. I'm not a fan of headsetters, but horses have came to me working in it and I left it on them. Tiany runs Showmance in a headsetter and he seems to really like the set up shes got on him. |
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Tie Downs, Headsetters, and Bonnets