100 METHODS OF SUBJECTION. 



hard work to train a horse successfully by the,Breaking Bit ; also to 

 make a bad puller, or horse having a hard mouth, sufficiently sensi- 

 tive to submit to the control of an ordinary bit. 



This is an ordinary bit with a pulley in each ring. A . small, 

 oval strap passes under the head-piece of the bridle, at each end of 

 which is a pulley corresponding to those attached to the bit. Tie 

 or buckle the ends of the reins into the rings of the bit, pass them up 



Fie. 130.— Patent Bridle for Headstrong, Lunging, Runaway Horses. Patented Oct. 20, 1880. 



through the pulleys on the ends* of the round straps, thence back 

 through the pulleys in the bit rings. ,On the ends of these round 

 pulley reins is stitched a small, strong string. Another round, extra 

 bit of strong, flexible material (used only for severe cases) is attached 

 to the main bit. (See Figs. 128, 129.) This bridle gives great pulley 

 power, up and backward, against the most sensitive part of the 

 mouth, under the upper lip, making it almost impossible to resist an 

 ordinary pull upon the reins. In addition, the fulcrum of whatever 

 power is used being brought, by the rounded strap before referred 

 to, directly upon the spinal cord (as explained in Third Method), 

 makes it a direct and powerful means of subjection ; so that 

 if there is courage to pull for any length of time, the horse finds 

 himself so overmatched that he will soon cease the resistance, and 



