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tlie effects arising, whether injurious or otherwise, from 

 the use of the new-fledged contrivance of a bridoon bridle 

 for single or double carriage driving. It cannot be from 

 its harmless use that the silence from such a quarter is to 

 be attributed, but more perhaps from attention not being 

 directed to it. 



This bridle, perhaps, would be of no more injury or 

 inconvenience to the driving or family carriage-horse than 

 the old English bridoon bridle and bit, were it used and 

 applied with the horse in the same way, for certainly it is 

 for the same purposes and with the same end in view. 

 Correctly speaking, it is only part of the harness of the 

 horse's head and mouth. In the mode of use or applica- 

 tion of this contrivance to the mouth, head, and neck of 

 the horse, lies its great objection in our view. Instead of 

 the application or attachments to the bridoon bit in the 

 mouth, being by two ends of a strap, and carried to the 

 middle turret on the harness-saddle, by the old style of 

 bearing-rein, and secured there, this rein is carried from 

 the mouth up the face, forehead, and along the crest of 

 the mane, and is secured as in the old style, to the middle 

 hook or turret of the saddle. 



The objection is not so much to the bridle as to the 

 mode of bearing. Thus the bearing against the lower jaw, 

 as with the ordinary way of bearing-rein, is done away 

 with, and the bit is pulled up with persistent force by a 

 powerful leverage, against the soft muscles and skin of 

 each side of the mouth, to its injury, causing the head to 



