Fwd: RC: Re:CONTROL AND COURTESY

[SandyDSA@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/1/99 4:52:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lindac@gilroy.com 
writes:

<< I know people who use snaffle straps to keep from pulling the snaffle
 ring into the horses mouth... it can happen! The reins attach to the
 snaffle ring below the strap.
  >>

This is what they - the ones who DO this - say. But it seems to me that if a 
rider ispullng the snaffle rings trhough the horse's mouth, there are other 
and bigger inadequacies here that need some fixin'
San

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• To: SandyDSA@AOL.com
• Subject: Re: RC: Re:CONTROL AND COURTESY
• From: Linda Cowles <lindac@gilroy.com>
• Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:49:55 -0700
• CC: flemmerl@rcbhsc.wvu.edu, Ridecamp@endurance.net
• References: <2cf44e8a.24858347@aol.com>
• Reply-To: kadence@ix.netcom.com

SandyDSA@aol.com wrote:

> AND...the weird and all too common use of a curb chain or strap with a
> snaffle. What is THAT about??
> san

I know people who use snaffle straps to keep from pulling the snaffle
ring into the horses mouth... it can happen! The reins attach to the
snaffle ring below the strap.

  -- Linda

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