{"id":3939,"date":"2014-11-10T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T04:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:18:09","slug":"bitless-bridles-seen-safer-alternative-horses-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/bitless-bridles-seen-safer-alternative-horses-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitless Bridles Seen as Safer Alternative for Horses in New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/b>from www.thehorse.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Helen and Oscar in Saudi Arabia compete in Cross country safely wearing a bitless bridle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Previous studies evaluating the behavioural responses of horses to different types of bridles found that horses perform at least as well, if not better, with a bitless bridle than a jointed snaffle.<\/p>\n

To probe deeper into the issue, Robert Cook, FRCVS, PhD, and Daniel Mills, BVSc, PhD, IL TM, CBiol MIBiol, MRCVS, tested their hypothesis that a horse’s behavior would change–for the better–when ridden with a bitless bridle, compared to a bridle with a bit. (Cook developed and patented the cross-under Bitless Bridle in the United States.)<\/p>\n

The study involving four ridden horses of various backgrounds was devised to test the “null” theory that said a horse would show no improvement in behaviour by being ridden in a bitless bridle.Researchers, however, predicted that there would be a change and that a horse’s behaviour would improve when being ridden bitless.<\/p>\n

Four horses, none of which had ever been ridden in a cross-under bitless bridle, were ridden through two 4-minute exercise tests, first bitted, using a plain jointed snaffle, then bitless.
\nAn independent judge marked the 27 phases of each test on a 10-point scale and comments and scores were recorded on a video soundtrack.The results disproved the accepted “null” theory and supported the researcher’s predictions.<\/p>\n

All four horses accepted the cross-under bitless bridle without hesitation.
\nThe mean average score of the horses performing the ridden test when bitted was 37%. This rose to 64% when they were ridden bitless and asked to perform the same movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0from www.thehorse.com Previous studies evaluating the behavioural responses of horses to different types of bridles found that horses perform at least as well, if not better, with a bitless bridle than a jointed snaffle. 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