The Balotade® Darco anatomical leather cavesson is a tool for groundwork and for riding that opens up many ways of working with a horse, depending on what that horse needs. The pressure goes onto the bridge of the nose, onto a wide, softly padded noseband — the signal is clear and the horse’s mouth stays free.<\/p>\n
And it is not a case of „either a bit or a cavesson”. Two detachable bit straps<\/strong> come with it: clip them on and you have a cavesson and a bridle in one; take them off and you are back to a plain cavesson for lunging and in-hand work. Swapping takes a moment — no unbuckling the headpiece, no threading the browband through, no hunting for a second bridle.<\/p>\n Lunging is where the difference shows most. A lunge line clipped to the bit ring drags the bit through the horse’s mouth and teaches it to lean on your hand; clipped to the centre ring of the cavesson it leads the horse by the nose, evenly on both reins. And when the horse is to work in side reins or draw reins, those go on the bit while the lunge line stays on the cavesson — neither gets in the other’s way. One piece of tack covers the young horse that does not know a bit yet, the horse with a sensitive mouth, everyday lunging, in-hand work and riding.<\/p>\n Each strap has its own buckle for setting the height of the bit in the mouth, a loop for the bit and a snap hook that clips into the fitting at the end of the cheekpiece. You adjust each side separately, and once the straps are off there are no loose ends left on the cavesson. One bridle instead of two — and one less thing to clean.<\/p>\n The noseband has one ring in the centre and one on each side. The centre ring is the standard place for the lunge line — the horse is led centrally and evenly on both reins. The side rings are for double lunging, for side reins and for work on position; a side attachment acts more sharply, so you use it deliberately and for short spells.<\/p>\n The noseband is wide and softly padded — it spreads the pressure instead of concentrating it on a narrow strap, which matters on the lunge, where a cavesson is working all the time. The headpiece is widened, shaped and lined, and the browband is profiled so that it does not press at the base of the ears. The jaw strap holds the whole thing in place and stops the cavesson from twisting when the lunge line pulls.<\/p>\n The cavesson comes in three sizes — PONY<\/strong>, COB<\/strong> and FULL<\/strong> — in black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Balotade® Darco anatomical leather cavesson is a tool for groundwork and for riding that opens up many ways of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":93804,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1294,1322,1270],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-95726","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-bridles-accessories-en-fix","product_cat-bridles-for-horses-en-fix","product_cat-halters-lead-ropes-and-lunge-lines-en-fix","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/95726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=95726"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=95726"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balotade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=95726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What you will use it for<\/h3>\n
\n
Detachable bit straps included<\/h3>\n
Three rings, three ways to lead<\/h3>\n
Anatomical cut<\/h3>\n
Features of the Darco cavesson<\/h3>\n
\n
Sizes<\/h3>\n