If you’ve studied dressage in the past, you may have learned the training scale, a six-level pyramid of increasingly advanced…
Before you can get a true connection and ride your horse on the bit, he needs to be supple. The…
Getting your horse on the bit is considered the Holy Grail of dressage. It may seem mysterious and hard to…
Weymouth: The weymouth is an English leverage bit. It is the curb bit component of the double bridle used in…
Rubber Snaffle: The effect of a snaffle bit’s action is made milder when the mouthpiece is encased in rubber. The…
D-ring: This bit gets its name from the shape of the bit ring, which is shaped like the capital letter…
Dr. Bristol: A double-jointed mouthpiece, similar to the French link, yet more severe. That’s because the centerpiece of the Dr.…
French link: Like the Dr. Bristol snaffle, the French link features a three-piece mouthpiece. But the French link is the…
Mullen mouth: Despite the non-jointed mouthpiece, a Mullen mouth snaffle is just that: a snaffle. When designed with a pair…
Eggbutt Snaffle: This oddly named snaffle does indeed resemble the oval shape of an egg. Unlike a loose ring snaffle,…