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Veteran
Posts: 193
Location: TEXAS | This is my go to bit! You can be light handed & get the job done. Its a great bit for finished horses. I adjust the curb to be a little loose. |
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 I'm Cooler Offline
Posts: 6387
 
Location: Pacific Northwest | I love this bit for my one horse. I definitely think it's best suited for someone that knows how to have light hands, however. It's not a bit that you would want to be accidentally jerking their mouth with.
The horse that I use it on was just about a runaway on the barrel pattern no matter how much slow work I did.
In my opinion there are no comparable bits. I had ridden the above horse in a lot of correctional bits and they didn't do anything but make him bracy. It was like night and day in the Ed Wright Pretzel. I see that some other brands make a similar bit but I would rather spend my money on the real deal. |
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 Cute Little Imp
Posts: 2747
 
Location: N Texas | The horse I bought it for HATED it. I think he just hates anything with a port. I got it because I'd heard so many awesome things about it, but it didn't work for me. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | I love it. But I also have a horse who likes ports. This bit helps you have light hands. With this bit you have to lift UP, not BACK for it to work effectively. The horse I use it on CAN be soft but sometimes he's a freight train. This bit helps both of us get back to being light. |
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Posts: 2489
Location: somewhere up north | Ditto to what hammer time said...I have just one horse I use it on..I bought it at an Ed Wright clinic. I feel it's important to understand how a bit was designed to be used before it is used...so I learned from him on how to use it. It definitely helps my mare as she gets to cruisin and would get heavy in her turns. I don't work her in it every day when I do the basics, but I will put it on her once or twice a week so we can both practice how to use it and then I run her in it. It is the only port bit, or heavier bit, I have ever used. But she and I needed something different and she is running great! |
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Posts: 2013
Location: Piedmont, OK | Love it but you need to be light handed |
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 Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | Love this bit!!! Like others have said, you have to be light handed. My little mare is one of those that is light mouthed until you get the GO button and then she tended to forget what RATE meant, the Pretzel allows me to be light with her. It also works well on my gelding that is light mouthed but heavy shouldered, I can make small adjustments lightly and leave him alone in a turn. My big mare who hates most 3 piece type bits, dog bone or lifesaver...does well in it also. She is super ratey and you would think this would be the opposite of what you would want on a ratey horse but I've found for her it keeps her feet quick rather than a lighter bit that tends to let her get heavy on her front end when she gets ratey. The key is adjusting it to the specific horse. My gelding likes it with 2 wrinkles and a tight chin chain, the big ratey mare likes it looser in the mouth but still a tighter chin chain. The little mare is a 1 wrinkle kind of girl and a tight chin chain also. Hands up with this bit, never back. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
Posts: 64864
Location: In the Hills of Texas | I like it but you have to be light handed and ride in a triangle in front of your saddle. |
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