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\nSteering by the halter, reins on the bit just as a security blanket for me<\/i><\/p>\n
The third ride I used a rope halter, with a thin rope tied for reins on the bottom of his halter. He was still wearing his bit, but again no reins were attached. I rode him in the round pen instead of the indoor arena, and we were both pretty happy there. We even started some trotting, which you can See here<\/a><\/p>\n I was pretty pleased with this set up, except that I got a bit nervous about having the rope halter and the rope reins with no hardware to break if he stepped on it or I got hung up. So I decided to put leather reins on the halter, but as I was doing so, I remembered that I have a jumping cavesson that I could use. I had been having some trouble with the rope halter twisting into his eye during ground work, so I thought I’d give this a shot since the browband will help with that.<\/p>\n We are going to go without the bit for now, and will re-introduce it later.<\/p>\n<\/a>Corny in the jumping cavesson. I couldn’t get him to stand father from me than this for the photo. He just wanted to snuggle.<\/i><\/p>\n