Trail Bridles and Bits

…of water, and wipe off with a clean cloth.) Western hackamore/bosal. The Western hackamore or bosal is a teardrop-shaped noseband made from strips of leather braided over a rawhide core….

Letters: 09/01

…-Marilyn Carville California ———- Bosal Fit Shame on your writer of the bosal article (July 2001) for not doing his or her homework.?? The photos of the adjustment of the…

Nose Pressure Counts In Sidepulls

…sidepull over a bosal because the sidepull lacks the curb type pressure of a bosal heel knot rising on the horse’s jaw, but it gives clear lateral signals. Both require…

Shrake Connector Bit

…a colt to respond well to a snaffle bit, then eliciting the same trained response in a bosal, then switching to a thin bosal under a curb bridle to get…

Paso Fino

…of the horse’s shoulders. Traditional training methods developed by horsemen in Peru over the centuries are only used to educate the horse and training is done with a bosal which…

Robinson Wins NRCHA Hackamore Classic

…as a full handcrafted hackamore–including bosal, hanger and Mecate from Krause Mecates, along with Sam Benito Braiding and a tooled breast collar from Classic Equine and the CR Morrison NRCHA…

Glossary of Equine Terms – B

…or hock. This measurement determines the horse’s ability to carry weight, therefore a light-boned will be limited in weight carrying capacity. Bosal: A braided noseband used in western equitation. Western…