The unique Training Rein was designed to help the amateur rider overcome the resistance of a horse that is built upside down with a hollow back and a ?ewe? neck. These reins are a cross between side reins and a German martingale. The fact that they are designed to be attached to the girth or billets at the bottom of the flaps of the saddle, allows the rider to take full advantage of the sliding effect of the rein, without the risk of shortening the horse?s neck, as so often happens with regular draw reins. This enables the horse to stretch over his top line and learn to look for the bit, thus developing correct musculature and creating the habit of working over his back. The reins have a wide range of adjustment and can also be completely detached at the snap on each end, without dismounting, when the horse is going comfortably, thus allowing him to be ?weaned? gradually from them. They should be adjusted so that there is approximately a four inch loop in the rider?s rein, when the horse has his head too high with his nose stuck out and there is a light contact with the snaffle rein. This creates a running rein effect, which will be alleviated as soon as he accepts the correct contact and yields to the pressure from the bit. At this moment the training reins will go slack and the rider will feel a direct, soft contact through the rein with the horse?s mouth. The rider has complete control over the action of this training aid, without the complication and bulk of using a separate draw rein and it is totally unrestrictive.
