[drivingpairs] Re: without blinders



Thank you Hardy, I knew you would have an answer for me!

Peach York
Oroville, Calif.
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From: <Hzlax@xxxxxxx>
To: <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: [drivingpairs] without blinders


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> In a message dated 11/28/2006 11:05:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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>> Reviewing a back issue of Equus magazine and a story about fire horses 
>> (Sept
>> 2006) I noticed that all the horses pictured were in open bridles.
>> Can I have some comments from the members?
> Fire horses were draft horses - and many draft horses were driven in open
> bridles. No problem with them - as drafthorses are also driven with the 
> whip in
> the socket. But don't drive carriage horses with open bridles, as carriage
> horses need the whip as an aid, and you don't want the horses to 
> anticipate when
> and where the whip is going to touch them, nor which horse in pairs or
> multiples. Most pairs of carriage horses  will start going crooked after a 
> while when
> driven in open bridles, as they start looking back towards the whip.
> Hardy
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