A good bit for a Beginning English horse?
I usually ride my 18 yr old standardbred mare western but i have ridden english on other horses and recently bought an english saddle and bridle. She was raced as a trotter so i think she has had some sort of an “english bit” (Dee ring, Egg butt snaffle etc.) used on her at one point, but i was wondering what a good starter bit would be. She has used a Copper Mouth Tom Thumb Bit since she retired from racing around the age of 5. im not looking to spend a ton of $ so an economical bit for her and me would be good. I would also like websites or pics of the bit and possibly why you think it would be a good bit. Thanks!
If she has not used a english bit in a while, and is sensative in the mouth, depends on her, a rubber snaffle, D-ring or eggbutt, would be good.
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Depends what you want in her mouth really and what she is like, you could get cooper,stainless steel, and other assorted metals, also if she does not like the bit, we can purchase bits that are flavored with apple, with have a piece of rubber/plastic around the bit part and it is then flavored, i believe you can get apple,cinnamon (i have no idea why), carrots, and horse cookie flavor depends what she love to eat. The flavored bits works well but it does tend to cause a lot of saliva at the start of the use, after a while horse gets used to the taste while working and then stops drooling, over all great bit.
Here are some great sites with lots of bits for sale and other equine items:
http://www.shop4bits.com/
http://www.horse-bits.co.uk/
http://www.bitsandbridles.com/
http://www.bitnspurtack.com/
my favourites:
http://www.kellystackshop.com/category.cfm?ID=28
and
http://www.sstack.com/jump.jsp?itemID=0&itemType=HOME_PAGE
Hope that helps, thanks
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