Toddlers can control horses Nurturally!

Inspired Horsemanship's toddler program.

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November 07, 2009

Abigail Wildenberg trotting - bareback and with the Nurtural Bitless Bridle

Bitless riding lesson

Enjoy this video of beginner, intermediate and advanced students taking a riding lesson with Laura Coglan of River Ridge Riding Stable in Milton Ontario. Laura had recently switched all her horses to the Nurtural Bitless Bridle. She found that the horses were calmer & behaved better and that the students learned to ride better. Everyone enjoyed their lessons more! This lesson was filmed on a very hot day in June 2006.

Enjoy watching the kids ride!

"It's a new world ... It's a new day!"

That's the theme song that played as these young riders showed how well school horses can behave in a Nurtural bitless bridle. Maybe it truly is a new day - when people realize all they can do with horses ... by removing the bit!
Three times a day for 10 days , these young riders and horses put on amazing shows in the Spirit of the Horse Ring at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair!

These are school kids, most with only 1-2 years riding lessons. These are school horses who had only ever been to one show.

Stallion's First Bitless Ride

This video shows Stephanie Smith riding 11 year old Canadian Grand Champion Morgan Stallion "P.R.'s A Promise Kept".

"Promise" had always been ridden in a bit. His owner, Doug, rode him around the Spirit of the Horse Ring in a bit, then got off, removed the bit and turned him over to 15 year-old Stephanie. Steph put on the Nurtural Bitless Bridle and soon had Promise doing circles and halts and performing as if he had been ridden bitless for years.

Norwegian Fiords x2 Can Am Nova Scotia
May 31, 08

Zoe Brooks and Gerry Guy, inventors of the Nurtural Bitless Bridle first directed the riders through a series of exercises using their usual bit. The audience scored (A) how well they completed each task and (B) how calm and responsive the horse was (their relationship.)

After only 5 minutes practice, they repeated the same exercises bitless in the Nurtural Bitless Bridle. The audience scored them again.