BITTING. 



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prime favourite with many riders. The Liverpool is greatly 

 used for harness, and seems to have quite superseded the 

 old Buxton, the bottom bar of which made it uncomfortably 

 liable to catch on the pole-end or shaft. 



I dislike seeing a gag employed, and consider it alto- 

 gether unnecessary, except for a buck-jumper, or an animal 

 who determinately " bores " his head in a downward posi- 

 tion ; nor am I at all in favour of the tivisted snaffle, 



SEGUNDO. MELTON BIT AND BRIDOON. 



which is a very severe bit, and does not answer any 

 purpose, so far as I have ever been able to make out, that 

 the chain-snaffle cannot be made to fulfil ; for if severity be 

 required, it can be obtained by twisting the chain before 

 putting it into the horse's mouth. I hate to see it, however, 

 and never would permit its use in my own stables, except in 

 the case of some animal that was known to be of an unusually 

 fractious, or, I might say, evil temper. Severity in bitting 



