[Sam Hill]

"(and he's pulling on the poor critter's mouth, and it's looking pained but polite.)"

A pet peeve of mine, too. I can't stand to watch most westerners because of the way the actors saw at the horses' mouths.

[oldenuff2no]

He needs to get out of that horses face!!!!!

[AnAmericanMother]

I'd take that police curb bit away and make him ride with a rubber mouth snaffle for a couple of weeks. . . .that'd cure him!

I ride my mare in a round-mouth French snaffle with a German martingale . . . that's plenty of brakes when I need them.