Some days I’m surprised I can get through life at all.
As long as I’ve owned Ava, she’s thrown her head up. She’s been doing it since the day I bought her back in 2011. Example: https://youtu.be/gJvhwlMYJRk?t=3m58s
It was always explained as a training problem to me.
2018, this thought popped into my head, “What if it’s the bit?!”
Switched her to a french link and…
she’s sooooooooooooooo much better.
I feel like the densest person in the world!
Been riding her in it for a few months now, and the head thing has almost completely gone away.
#hindsight20/20
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It’s hardly ever “just a training thing”…that’s what the symptom looks like, until you address the cause. Glad you found her preference for a different bit. Who the heck knows what goes on inside a horse’s mouth? It’s not like we can put a little camera in there and peek at the goings-on! 😋
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“It’s not like we can put a little camera in there and peek at the goings-on” <– That would be awesome! Or be able to take a mold of their mouth where the bit sits. 🙂
Someday….
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