February 5, 2009
Horse Control and the Bit
On the first day of the Royal Melbourne Summer Horse Show last year a group of friends and I sat ringside watching some of the classes. Rider after rider, or handler after handler, yanked, jerked and wrenched at their horse’s mouths with the bit making us endlessly cringe. All of us, in the previous week, had read an article that had forever changed our view of the bit and its use with horses.
