Identifier: horsessaddlesbri00cart (find matches)
Title: Horses, saddles and bridles
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Carter, William H. (William Harding), 1851-1925
Subjects: Cavalry Horses
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : The Lord Baltimore Press, The Friedenwald Company
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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rubber re-moved in No. 3, figure 41. The common smooth snaffle bit with one joint (No. 5, figure41), is the most useful of all bits. For the saddle horse it shouldbe of the simplest form, neither too long, too thin, nor too muchcurved, and each half should be tapered down from the outsideto the middle. Snaffle bits are often made with rings only, the cheek-piecesbeing omitted. They are sometimes made with a double-jointedmouth-piece (No. 4, figure 41), and occasionally with two mouth-pieces, plain or twisted, the joint of one being on the oppositeside of the center from the other (No. 7, figure 41). Then thereis the single-twisted wire snaffle bit, a very efficacious instrumentfor ruining the horses mouth (No. 6, figure 41) ; and still an-other contrivance called a bit, but in reality two rings connectedby a chain (No. 12, figure 41). The mouthing bit (No. 8, figure 41) is intended for use onyoung colts during the first period of training. The mouth-piece6 HORSES, SADDLES AND BRIDLES
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Figure 41. Varieties of Bits. BITS 83 is very large at the outer ends, with a gradual tapering to thering joint, to which are attached three small metal tags suspendedon a thin plate. The mouth-piece being thick near the guards, isnot apt to wound the tender bars and lips of the young horse.The tags hang upon and tickle the tongue, and cause the colt tochamp the bit, as it is called, and tend to keep his mind occu-pied while he is undergoing the process of being familiarized withstrange sights and sounds. This bit is made with full cheek-pieces, to prevent the rings from being drawn into the mouth.Upon the gentle application of this and the plam snaffle to thecolts mouth, much of the future usefulness of the mature horsedepends. The snaffle bit, called bridoon, which is used in combinationwith a curb bit, has a mouth-piece of smaller diameter than isgenerally the case where the snaffle bit is used alone and usuallyhas small rings, with no cheek-pieces, at the outer ends. Curb bits are

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