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BRIDLES AND SADDLES. 



2\ inches long. A horse, perhaps, may not pull as 

 much against this sliding mouthpiece as against a fixed 

 one. My only objection to it is that it cannot be placed 

 sufficiently low in the mouth, without interfering with 

 the tushes. It might do all right with mares, although, 

 if placed sufficiently low, it would look bad. 



Pelhams. — The Pelham is a combination of the curb 

 and snaffle in various forms. Its action, when it has a 



Fig. 28. 



jointed mouthpiece (see Fig. 28}, is very faulty, for, when 

 the curb reins are drawn tight, the cheeks of the bit jam 

 against the sides of the mouth, by reason of the joint which 

 is at the centre of the mouthpiece, whose width, instead 

 of exactly corresponding with that of the horse's mouth. 



