Tera’s a lovely Oldenburg mare, 12 years young and full of typical female ‘tude. I give her a good hack from time to time when her college-age owner is back home for the holidays or enjoying a week of spring break. And each time I grab her bridle off its designated tack room peg, it’s equipped with a different bit: a three-ring elevator, a loose-ring Waterford, something else I’ve never seen before … Needless to say, she’s sometimes a bit “tough” in the mouth.

Tera is the first horse I’ve ridden who really took to a German hackamore

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