In fact, she’ll often “test” me by jerking her chin out at a walk to see if she can gain rein, but eventually concedes. It’s a nice “reminder” of where she should be using leverage. I used this “appliance” for about 6 months and she totally got it! Now, we’ve graduated to using “forks”, a Y shaped thingie that attaches to the girth with 2 loops for the reins to go through. This appliance was worn OVER the regular bridle and when I twisted my wrists back, it put just a little pressure to her poll, encouraging her to bring her chin down, arching her neck and therefore rounding her back. Too poor to buy the proper equipment, I sewed a set of long reins out of heavy nylon webbing that connected over the poll with a browband to keep them in place and then fed them through a regular snaffle. The BO suggested I try using a gag bit to teach her to bring her head down at the poll with gentle rein pressure when riding. My wild & strong greenie would hold her head up like a giraffe when I’d ride her, hollowing her back. I never did either until my BO showed me hers. So what are some riding situations where gags are used? Just curious, no particular need to know except I never did learn about gags. Works in a similar way as a gag by applying pressure on the pole with the use of the curb rein, but it not quite as powerful as a true gag. I would not and have never heard that last one you pictures referred to as a GAG bit. To explain how each works and why and what horses are they used for would take a whole chapter. With all the tin installed, the safety loop bracket will just have to go thru the tin into the inside of the. There is a tab welded off the chassis bar that the rod end goes thru. To explain how each works and why and what horses are they used for would take a whole chapter. Pics are when the car was being built not the best but you get the idea. There are now many other kinds of bits also called gag bits, but I consider them to be a little bit different, some with shanks, where the mouthpiece slides up and down the rings, as in a regular ring snaffle it may, but this time from the action of the reins on the shanks of the bit iself, like this: When you pull on the reins, the snaffle will work some and the pull will go on up to the poll. The original gag bits were those snaffles that, rather than the horse getting a straight pull from the reins only, the gag effect makes the pull translate to the side pieces of the bridle and over the poll:Īs you can see, most are a regular snaffle with holes for the cheek pieces to fit thru and you attach the reins to the rings on the bottom of those cheek pieces, not on the ring of the snaffle directly.
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