headstall

Then my father went in and put his headstall on and led him out.

When it was time for the fair, the son turned into a horse and told his father not to sell him with the headstall.

He held his sweating horse with a firm hand on the headstall.

The portion of a headstall that goes behind the horse's ears.

Fumbling, he got the headstall up on the ridges above her eyes.

Sometimes used to refer to the entire piece of equipment, including headstall, bit and reins.

The problem was eventually reduced by putting a headstall on him with a long rope attached.

So now he could be caught behind the safety of the fence, and the rope attached to his headstall was no longer needed.

I recall the voices of the men urging the horses apart (one may not hold them by the headstall).

Other adornments, including small animals, occur along the straps that hold the headstall on the horse's face.

As his attacker lunged to throw him, the captain hooked a headstall.

Slip the reins over the head, so; the headstall goes up over the ears.

After six weeks Moz began to mellow, and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him.

Her fingers found his ribboned headstall, and she vaulted to his back.

A bit is a device placed in a horse's mouth, kept on a horse's head by means of a headstall.

Quickly grabbing its ear, Piemur managed to get the headstall in place.

Next she untied the mare's headstall and handed it over the back of the empty saddle to me.

Eydryth swung herself forward, both hands closing on the horse's headstall and bit.

In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.

In other styles of riding, a simple noseband is sometimes attached directly to the same headstall as the bit.

The black stud remained, pawing restlessly by the tree that tethered its headstall.

With Jilian pulling on its headstall, the horse braced it- self and hauled.

These devices use various assortments of straps around the nose and poll to apply pressure by tightening the headstall in particular areas.

He had cut one horse free, seized its headstall, dragged it to its feet, and then started it scrambling up the hill.

The purchase of the bit is the upper portion of the cheek that extends from the mouthpiece to the headstall rings.