THE PATENT BRIDLE. 



The Patent Bridle. 



When the horse is found to be extremely reckless in resisting 

 the bit, and especially when the case cannot be subjected to the 

 regular treatment to be trained out of the habit, it is very important 

 to be able to bring sufficient 

 power upon the mouth to 

 restrain and hold the horse 

 safely. If, in addition to this, 

 the force of the restraint car 

 be made to impress the horse 

 in such a way that he will be 

 disinclined to repeat it, a 

 very important point .will be 

 accomplished. This we can 

 now do very successfully by 

 what we here denominate the 

 Patent Bridle, which js es 

 pecially adapted for the con- 

 trol of extremely headstrong 

 or lunging horses 



During my early experience, 

 I found an excellent method 

 of driving hard-pulling, run- 

 away horses was to bring a 

 small cord across over the head under the head-piece of the bridle, 

 then pass the ends through the rings of the bit, and then attach the 

 reins. Then, when the horse pulled, the purchase would be brought 

 directly across the top of the head, and it was found to work in 



many cases very finely. I made 

 various modifications of this, but 

 when I made the point of training 

 the mouth out of resistance by the 

 Breaking Bit, there being no special 

 necessity for this kind of treatment, 

 Labandoned it. But knowing the 

 inability of many to do this with 

 the requisite success, in addition to 

 , often requiring considerable work 

 to do it well, to meet this emergency I devised the Patent Bridle, 

 which carries; this principle to the highest degree of perfection. 



It sometimes requires considerable practice as well as much 



Fie. 128.— Outline of Patent Bridle. 



Fig. 189. 



