On Seats And Saddles: Bits And Bitting And the Prevention And Cure of ...
On Seats And Saddles: Bits And Bitting And the Prevention And Cure of ...
Francis Dwyer
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; and it was on the same ac- count considered to be, a fortiori^ wholly unfit for racing purposes. This was, perhaps, not a good reason for rejecting it altogether during the first handling of young horses, as it would have been easy to lay it aside after- ward when they came to their held work ; but the truth is, that the noseband was placed so high up above the angles of the horse's mouth that it could ^lot prevent the animal opening its mouth and doing what it pleased with the bit, unless it... was buckled so tight as really to Digitized by Google The Cavesson^ Snaffle^ etc, 151 interfere seriously with the respiration, even at the more moderate pace of a trot or walk — besides other imperfections, to which allusion shall be made lower down. This was long a stumbling-block in the way of the rational treatment of colts and fillies, and was prob- ably what led indirectly to the invention of various in- struments of torture known by the name of " capital mouthpieces ;" but this difficulty has been at length got over, and we are in possession of a contrivance which enables us to effect what the old-fashioned noseband never could.
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