Western Style Bridles and Bits: Snaffles, Curbs, Correct Romal

Western horses are trained to come off the smooth snaffle bit. Understand the different types of bits with helpful advice in this video on riding and caring for horses.

With the western bridle, we like for them to be soft and supple and move off of the bit when we pick up our hands. I know some disciplines, like for when you when you pull in the horse that they like a little bit of contact and that they ride with contact too, not so much in the western part of it. When we are teaching them, we teach them to come off of the smooth snaffle, and if that is just not enough if they are just a hard faced horse, then we will use this twisted wire. And this is not any worse than the smooth snaffle it is all in how to person uses it and how it is being applied. When they are soft to these bridles here and they understand the basic concepts we move to a curb bit, something with a curb chain. And the curb chain just applies a little applies some more pressure to the chin and also helps with some pressure on the pull. But we considered a correctional curb bit that is jointed here, to work differently on the different parts of the mouth. And this is just another, another type of curb bit here, this one happens to have a square port, kind of a, a little bit higher rise than the first one. And all these bits work off of pressure, you know they are supposed to move away from the pressure.