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Journal
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September 8, 2026
How to Care for Leather Tack
Clean, condition, maintain — and the one ingredient that quietly ruins leather.
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September 8, 2026
When to Use a Hackamore
Three horses that went better without a bit — a trail string, a dressage horse hiding behind the vertical, and a mare with a broken jaw.
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September 8, 2026
How to Spot Discomfort in Your Horse
A horse is always a horse. What the loud signals and the quiet ones mean, and when the tack is the cause.
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September 8, 2026
Rope Halters vs Flat Halters
Why riders keep moving off nylon web halters and onto hardware-less rope — and what a halter cannot do for you.
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September 8, 2026
Loop Reins or Mecate Reins
The difference is length — and what the extra twelve feet lets you do on the ground and under saddle.
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September 7, 2026
Pressure Points of the Horse's Head
The poll, the palate, the bars, the tongue, the lips and the nasal bone — what every bit and halter is actually pressing on, and how a horse tells you it is wrong.
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September 7, 2026
The Hidden Dangers of an All Copper Snaffle Bit
Copper earns its place in a bit. As the whole mouthpiece it is the wrong metal in the wrong place — and inlay solves it.
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September 3, 2026
Bit Types: Mouthpieces and Cheek Pieces
Single jointed, dog bone, Dr. Bristol, mullen, wire, ported, rollers and twists — and the cheek pieces that carry them.
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September 3, 2026
How a Horse Bit Works
What a bit actually touches — the equine skull, the poll, the tongue, the interdental space — and why the mouthpiece matters more than the cheek piece.
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