BRIDLES AND SADDLES. 



A headstall is the name given to the foregoing leather 

 Avork, when in a collected form, and to which is attached 

 the snaffle, the bit and bridoon, the Chifney bit, or the 

 Pelhain. 



The lipstrap serves to keep the curbchain in its place. 



The reins are connected to the rings of the curb or 

 snaffle. 



The billets are the ends of the reins, or of the cheek- 

 pieces of the bridle, which buckle on to the bit. 



Loops or keepers serve, when buckles are used, to 

 retain the ends of the billets. 



Stops are used with reins which have buckles, to pre- 

 vent the martingale rings catching on the buckles. 



A bridoon head is the headstall of the snaffle of a 

 double bridle. It has neither throat latch nor forehead 

 band. 



Headstalls. — It is considered to be " the thing " to 

 have the headstall sewn, and not buckled, on to the bit. 

 This plan undoubtedly looks far neater than the other, 

 although it is somewhat inconvenient to the groom when 

 he wants to clean the bridle. Besides this, it does not 

 admit of the bit being readily changed. These objec- 

 tions can, of course, have no weight with a man who has 

 as many different bridles and bits as he may choose 



