A scary story

[Sandman@voeding.tno.nl]

Read this on EuroEndura. 

> Dear all,
> 
> I read a frightening story on a Swedish (horsey) web page the other
> day, which
> is pretty relevant to endurance. It was written by a Swedish horse
> owner who
> wanted to warn people about combination bridles, or more specifically:
> about
> those combination bridles that have the clips for the bit attached
> directly on
> the head stall (rather than on removable bit 'hangers' as most of us
> use). Her
> horse had been wearing a bridle like this and decided to rub its head
> on its
> front leg. Unfortunately it was wearing boots and the clips on the
> bridle
> caught on the strap of one of the boots. You can imagine the rest, and
> it
> resulted in months off work, huge vet bills and a horse that can now
> (2 years
> later) still only be ridden in a hackamore. Fortunately she had the
> oldfashioned type of boot with narrow leather straps and little
> buckles so the
> strap broke pretty quickly or else it might have been even worse.
> 
>