Thanks for the videos! I routinely rode all my former horses without bridles, but didn't have any video camera back then. I remember in 1981 someone yelling at me while I was casually riding through the Durango fairgrounds on my Arabian, that I was irresponsible to ride without a bridle and to stay away from her quarterhorse (which was at least 50 feet from me, going sideways and fighting the bit). I glanced over at them, wondering what she was talking about and wishing she wouldn't saw at her horse's mouth.
Another time, the local rodeo promoter stopped me and offered money if I would do a bridleless routine and barrel race for the crowds on Saturday, but I declined. I had done it all my life, so didn't think anything of it. In fact, even though I leave a bridle on Banjo, I knot the reins and throw them down on his neck. I would think the intelligent Icelandic horses would be even more easy to train. Like I said before, most horses pick it up in about 15 minutes. One little mustang stallion I broke in Haiti, I never did even buy a bridle for him. Rachel Jenkins
