This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:45 PM 3/19/99 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: "Bushnell's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >A Sliester is a brand name, Jean, for a real nice hackamore. We got ours at >the Western Outdoors store in Kalispell, MT. I'm sorry I don't have a >reference or picture of one for you to see. We like them because the horses >like them:o) Ruthie > Can you tell us more? How thick is the hackamore. How big (heavy) is the knob? I gather you might have bought this as a whole set, with leather hanger, bosal, and mecate all set up and ready to go.
My Mike Bridges video suggests using a three eighths inch hackamore as a tool to introduce a "bridle horse" to a high-ported "vaquero" bit. Of course, three eighths is not real thick. Then there are the special fitting problems of Fjords - (many of whom do not have the thin place on their nose that your standard QH has - or maybe they do - has anyone a good dissertation on fitting hackamores to the often-triangular Fjord head). Mike Bridges' philosophy runs along the same lines as the Hackamore Reinsman - Ed McConnel books. The idea being that you train a horse to accept reach for and hold a high-ported bit in such a way that he/she responds immediately to the lightest touch of a neck rain - and does not wait for the action of the curb chain/leather to come into play. I know that the Unrau's daughter has trained her Fjord gelding, Anvil's Lucas, with a hackamore. Maybe she is out there and can describe? :) Gail - who had a long day trying to talk with her dressage instructor about the right kind of snaffle for a horse trained in the vaquero tradition. (this lady is difficult, but she does listen if I just show her I;m alpha :)) Gail Russell Forestville CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
