Re: RC: HACKAMORES

[Jasmine Cave <toppere@siu.edu>]

your horse may not have liked poll presure. The english hack has more than
the "s" horse and some like poll pressure and yield to it lowering their
heads and others don't so they push agaist it. They are all individuals and
I only said how they work with most, not all horses.
jasmine
At 03:40 PM 6/4/99 -0400, Rides 2 Far wrote:
>
> If you want a 
>>lower
>>head set go with a mechanical hackamore.
>
>This sounds all wrong to me...the mechanical hackamore wearer tends to
>have the neck coming up at a high angle, then carries the nose in.  The
>longer the shanks the more you tend to get this carriage in my
>experience.  I had a big ex-race horse App that I always rode with
>one...MANY miles ago.  Seems strange now not to look at the world through
>a set of ears.  I don't care for it much because the horse tends to
>hollow his back with it.  However, a horse who is trained in another bit,
>then just sort of slips into something more comfortable like the
>S-hackamore doesn't necessarily fit this pattern.
>
>Angie   
>
>
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