How to Use a Double Bridle?


To use a double bridle, evaluate your riding level. Evaluate your horse to ensure that you are able to bend and flex her easily in all directions. Then fit the bridle to your horse ensuring you hang the curb chain carefully. Hold the reins using your fists between the index finger and thumb with the snaffle reins on top.
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How to Use a Double Bridle
A double bridle is used by advanced riders and horses in a variety of English disciplines, including saddle seat, hunters, jumpers and dressage. Most commonly used in the higher levels of dressage, the double bridle is a wonderful way to lighten and... More »
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1. Evaluate your riding level. Riders using the double bridle are advanced enough to know how to keep their hands still. In other words, they do not use their hands as the primary
A double bridle, also called a full bridle or Weymouth bridle, is a bridle that has two bits
A double bridle has two bits - a bradoon, or snaffle - and a curb bit. The curb is usually used to help create the horse's frame, and the snaffle is used more to give the horse cues
A double bridle is used to provide both a snaffle (called the bradoon) and a curb bit (called the bit) which can be used independently of each other. An extra strap (the bradoon hanger
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Bridoon refers to a type of snaffle bit, with small rings, usually used on a double bridle. It is normally used in conjunction with a curb bit. A snaffle is a ...