Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Training ride today

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

Hi, Abby

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>Karen said
>> Used properly, it is just insurance
>> that your horse won't run around with his nose up in the air avoiding the
>> bit and making you fight for control.



You said:

>A well-trained horse?>


I agree with you regarding dispensing with the martingale in training, but
when I take my horses out in the country and we're taking big, solid fences
at speed, I prefer to have it.  Not so much to stop them flinging their
heads up (they don't do that) but because the neck strap is handy to hang
onto when you're leaping off of a back and because, if you're thrown, the
rings tend to stop the reins being stood on and broken if your horse bolts.


And anyway, when you discuss a running martingale, you have to base any
premise on the assumption that the person is fitting the thing correctly.
If the martingale is in any way affecting the bit / reins / horse's head
when his head is NOT up in the air (as opposed to merely raised - to look at
a fence for instance) then the running martingale is not being properly
used.  It's effects are therefore not a reflection on the gadget, but on the
moron using it incorrectly.


Tracey
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