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An option to bungees is a bicycle tire tube. The tube can be used to 
give some give like a bungee but since a regular lead rope is used on 
the horse, there is no hardware attached to it. They are also amazingly 
strong when it comes to breaking.

Truman

Snodgrass, Bonnie wrote:

> This is why I buy my own bungee and have them made up. Many are made of
> small strings of rubber. The type I buy are wide flat bands. I recommend if
> you know you have a puller or aren't sure, then use a long bungee, double it
> over, pass the bight thru the tie ring on the trailer, pass both snaps thru
> the bight to form a sort of knot and snap both snaps to the horses halter.
> There is no single thickness of bungee taking all the strain this way. If
> one of the snaps should give it moves away from the horse towards the
> trailer.
>
> Bonnie S.
>
>  




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