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August, 2021 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview. com Book & art nook neck, head shyness, tail swishing, moving tongue and jaw, and triggers salivation. at Metal in the in an inverted frame, tongue over the bit, the level of the throat, all these raise the bucking, rearing and more. Bit pain also soft palate and enlarge the food channel at had a negative effect on proprioception, the expense of the air channel, interfering Mouth i.e., balance, posture, coordination and with breathing,” explains dr. Cook. By MSHR Staff movement. one consequence of impaired breathing Reference : “Behavioural assessment of is restricted movement, specifically stride in photographing a variety of equestrian pain in 66 horses, with and without a bit” shortening, according to dr. Joyce har - sports, we often unintentionally get pho - W.R Cook and M. kibler, 2018. full paper man, dvM. Bits can also be an impedi - tos of horses in distress from bit pain. We at:beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11 ment to performance because “bit pain capture them opening their mouths, rais - 11/eve.12916 often causes the horse to throw up its ing their heads, with thick muscle build- Other research on bit pain head.” this distracts the horse at the very up on the underside of the neck (rather the main effect of bits is pain, but bits moment it needs to focus on what is ahead. than along the topline of the neck), and can also impair the horse’s breathing, in - Read Sparks full article at: “are Bits sometimes even rearing up to try to escape terfere with striding, and impede perform - Bronze age technology?” horse-Sport. bit pain. you can also see a look of fear in ance. Carley Sparks’ 2012 article in July 3. horsesport.com/magazine/train - their eyes. their riders are often oblivious horse-Sport explains these bit effects by ing/are-bits-bronze-age-technology/ to the pain their horse is suffering as they detailing some of dr. Cook’s research david J. Mellor published an article in continue to make attempts to maneuver in the horse and his validation of the Bit - findings: 2020 on “Mouth Pain in horses: Physio - their horse where they want it to go. But less Bridle is now doing more for the wel - “the repeated pressure of bit on bone logical foundations, Behavioural indices, because of bit pain, there is no “commu - fare of both horse and rider than anything causes the sensory nerve to the face to be - Welfare implications, and a Suggested So - nication” between rider and horse, and so he has done previously. he believes the come super-sensitive, i.e., to develop lution.” animals (Basel). april 10(4). performance is greatly diminished because Bitless Bridle is helping horsemen in all trigeminal neuralgia. this is the most com - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti - the horse is solely concentrating on escap - equestrian disciplines to achieve improved mon cause of head shaking (tossing). cles/PMC7222381/ ing the pain in his mouth and head. performance. Because the horse’s mouth horses experience pain in the mouth, but find an illustrative video on “the ef - dr. Robert Cook has written many arti - is one of the most sensitive parts of its also in their face, eyes, and ears. a head- fects of the bit part 1” by arno hendriks cles on the effects of bits on a horse’s anatomy, his research has shown that the tosser may also be difficult to bridle, a per - on youtube. the seven and a half minute mouth and the nerves throughout the bit is responsible for over a hundred be - sistent head-rubber, unable to stand bright video addresses the questions: “Why does horse’s head. Probably his most famous havioral problems. on dr. Cook’s website, light, wind or rain, and impossible to han - a horse open his mouth and what happens book is Metal in the Mouth: the abusive https://bitlessbridle.com/articles/ you can dle around the ears.” if the horse does not open his mouth? the effects of bitted bridles (2003, Sabine find hundreds of his research articles. Sparks relates how Cook debunks a bit can hit the roof of the horse’s mouth. kells), by W. Robert Cook and hiltrud in 2018 dr. Cook and M. kibler pub - myth of horsemanship: that a bit controls By opening his mouth, the horse tries to Strasser. this book describes and scientif - lished in the results of a longitudinal study the horse. “it doesn’t. a bit doesn’t act like prevent the bit from hitting the roof of his ically documents the multitude of effects comparing the behavior of horses ridden the brakes on a car. on the contrary, it mouth. there are other ways the horse of a bit in the horse's mouth. these effects with and without a bit. Sixty-nine behav - often acts like an accelerator. horses run tries to escape the pain. the tongue is one are still widely unknown among horsemen iors in 66 bitted horses were identified as from pain. if you hurt your horse, it speeds of the most sensitive organs in the horse’s and owners, and range from pain to respi - induced by bit-related pain.