a new piece of kit...

 

Micklem bitless

...for a while now, I've been plotting to overthrow the piece of metal I use in Tom & Henry's bridles, and go bitless.

 

My reasons are two-fold. One, and most importantly, I want my boys to be pain and discomfort-free, to be happy and willing - and two - I want to de-clutter their pretty faces from all the superfluous leather.

They both have Mylar low-port comfort snaffles, so they already have a kind bit soloution, but the more I read, the more I ride, the more I'm determined to do this.

 

 I have read about anatomy, and this made me even more determined to go this way.

 

So, after much research, I landed on Micklem - the bridle which has many configurations including bitless - at three different levels of 'hold'.

 

 As I type, my new bridle (and I bought just the one to try-out), is waiting at the Post Office for me to collect. So, for the Easter bank holiday - Tom and Henry will go bitless for the first time.  

 













...cant wait.

this is what I have selected - I will, of course, let you know how it went...with lots of photos of course.

   

what's happened to the summer already?

Tom & Henry,
...just in case you'd forgotten what they looked like!

summertime sunsets...

...did you see the sunset last night?
yep, more lovely photos of Tom & Henry x

..what happened to May!!...?

...it's June already!...
what happens to all the time?

...well, Tom and Henry are getting out and about, they're a picture of gleaming health and getting fitter (and faster). 

We're doing lots of trotting on fields and farmers tracks (not roads to minimise concussion), and transitions because it's fittening.

...after my vet told me Tom could lose some weight, and the painful stab to the heart I felt at letting him get this way because I love him so much had abated (some), his girth is already easier to get done up.   Soon, I'll need to go back to the smaller one!!    

Yey us!!! ....and doubled-up small-holed haynets!!!

...the paddocks are green and flourishing, the hedgerow I just planted is growing fast and they love to prune the tips of the growing shoots.  

...so, in short, all good here..

...aw, them 'orses....

...for the love of Tom & Henry...

...more photo-journal stuff, and how Tom really is slimming down for the beach, and nearly a year after his accident, where he had 37 stitches in his shoulder, he's recovered just fine xxx