{"id":1659115,"date":"2020-04-06T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forelockandload.com\/?p=1659115"},"modified":"2024-03-13T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:56:06","slug":"kate-sandersons-write-up-on-the-bombers-moulded-mullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/kate-sandersons-write-up-on-the-bombers-moulded-mullen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Sanderson&#8217;s Write Up on the Bombers Moulded Mullen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As some of you may have seen, over the last few months I&#8217;ve had the wonderful Kirstie from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forelockandload.com\">Forelock and Load<\/a>&nbsp;helping me find a suitable dressage bit for Elle.  Head over to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forelockandload.com\/collections\/equestrian\/bitting-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bitting Advice (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>Bitting Advice<\/strong><\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elle is EXTREMELY light in the contact in 99% of bits, although she may look and appear round, to ride she gives absolutely no feeling down the rein, because she is reluctant to take a confident contact forward.  Because of this, she had a tendency to drop behind the vertical or have a slightly higher frame and when tension came into play, because she wouldn&#8217;t seek a contact forward and out.  She would lock through her back and the rhythm would simply quicken to a more &#8216;up-down&#8217; action, rather than flowing forward, relaxed and out in the neck.  Thankfully because I&#8217;ve had her for 3 and a half years, I have always known how to disguise the flaws in a test but because we had started to &#8216;up our game&#8217; recently, I was really desperate to find something she felt more secure in as it was stopping us from progressing in our training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forelock and Load Bitting with Kate Sanderson\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMsNRaZOh8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirstie went up and beyond to help find a suitable bit for Elle, we had many discussions and a few trials of bits but then came across the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forelockandload.com\/product\/bombers-eggbutt-moulded-mullen-bit-hire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Moulded Mullen (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>Moulded Mullen<\/strong><\/a> Bombers Bits and I hope you can see the difference speaks for itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elle always used to feel like she was trying to &#8216;reset&#8217; the bit in her mouth, if I did start to get any inkling of her taking a small contact forward, she would then move the bit in her mouth, meaning we kept finding ourselves in a vicious circle of struggling to establish a consistent contact.  In the Moulded Mullen she is far stiller, less chomping and opening her mouth of the bit, she is a lot more through, over her back and out in the neck and she is generally a lot more relaxed. The canter still has a little progress to be made, because now she is taking a contact and she&#8217;s actually gone a tiny bit pokey nose in her canter work.  This means I&#8217;m having to ask her to work a little bit rounder- which is a far better place to be than her being backwards and tucked in from the contact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you Kate for such a lovely write up and we hope it helps some other horses and riders who might be reading.  We look forward to watching you and Elle over the summer.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2024\/03\/Elle-1234-1024x8271-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2201329\" style=\"width:314px;height:253px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2024\/03\/Elle-1234-1024x8271-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2024\/03\/Elle-1234-1024x8271-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2024\/03\/Elle-1234-1024x8271-1-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kate Sanderson and Elle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may have seen, over the last few months I&#8217;ve had the wonderful Kirstie from&nbsp;Forelock and Load&nbsp;helping me find a suitable dressage bit for Elle. 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