Premier Equine Leather Mouth Pelham Short Curb with Aurion Lozenge

Suitable for horses that:

• Need more than a snaffle but are sensitive about metal

• Come high in the neck and become unsteady

• Come above the bit in downward transitions

• Are new to a curb bit

How it works

Mouthpiece. 14mm finished, double jointed, with curved cannons angled forward to follow the shape of the tongue. The lozenge lies flat on the tongue rather than standing upright between tongue and palate, so tongue pressure is spread across the width of the tongue. There is no nutcracker action and nothing reaches the palate.

Cheek piece. A short shank engages quickly and remains forgiving if the rein is held rather than given, which makes it the one to start with. The arms above and below the mouthpiece are close to equal, so poll pressure is loaded as much as bar pressure and the horse is asked to drop and settle rather than draw the nose in. Ridden on the top rein it acts as a fixed cheek snaffle; on the bottom rein the curb chain enters the curb groove, poll pressure is applied and the horse comes into an outline. Pairing a curb with a leather mouthpiece keeps the mouth side of the action soft while the poll and curb do the work.