Post by Elaine on Feb 11, 2012 18:08:52 GMT
A showjumper at Dublin Horse Show 2011
This horse is wearing draw reins, a double bridle, a martingle, and a grackle noseband at Dublin Horse Show 2011. In Ireland today this is an ‘acceptable’ level of leverage to put on a showjumping horse. What about horse welfare?
“How much tack do you need to control your horse??? Very sad this is the way people treat such intelligent animals.”
Buck Brannaman on flash & grackle nosebands: “I hate them. Stupid. You are driving a car, and a light comes on to say you need oil. Do you punch through the glass panel and break the light, or do you buy some more oil? People who used grackles and flashes on their horses are the people who bash through their instrument panel. The problem is inside the horse, not outside.”