BITS AND BITTING 



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The horse afflicted with the contrary vice, 

 boring, or carrying the head too low, may be 

 taught to keep it up by the use of the gag- 

 snaffle, which is so contrived that by means of 

 a piped rein buckled high on the cheek-piece 

 and carried through extra rings on the bit, the 



GUARD-CHECK OR LIVERPOOL DRIVING-BIT 



mouthpiece can be pressed into the corners of 

 the mouth. 



Many devices have been tried to cure horses 

 with "one-sided" mouths; circular pieces of stiff 

 leather with a few studs rivetted on them and 

 fixed on the bit answer the direct purpose, but are 

 liable to make the horse shy of "going up to the 



