British Dressage (BD) has responded to a rider’s calls for bitless bridles to be allowed in competition. The rider, Tam Russell, contacted BD after being disappointed to find she could not ride her ...

From team chasing and showjumping to hacking and schooling, the use of bitless bridles is increasing. However, if you’ve only ever ridden horse in a bit, it can feel daunting to go without. We speak ...

Previous studies evaluating the behavioral responses of horses to different types of bridles found that horses perform at least as well, if not better, with a bitless bridle than a jointed snaffle. To ...

A Government minister has backed a campaign to save horses from pain by allowing top-level riders to compete using bridles without the traditional metal bit. Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat minister ...

Eagle-eyed observers at the recently-concluded Sandy Ridge Quarter Horse meet in Lexington, Ky., may have noticed something different when they looked at 3-year-old Dirti Dianne. The Clint Crawford ...