# @first_bit_equine_ on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj9g-GzsOhN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9015590-first-bit-equine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-10-21T03:46:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** First Bit Equine (@first_bit_equine_) — https://gondola.cc/first_bit_equine_

## Caption

💥 Suppleness, Looseness & Absence of Tension

◾Requires the willingness of the horse
◾Muscles of neck & back band must be relaxed & swing with the movement of the horse’s legs
◾All joints bend & stretch equally well

💥Indications

1.	Content & happy expression - relaxed eye, mobile ears
2.	Tail carried & swinging like a pendulum
3.	Soft & rhythmically swinging back – rider able to sit
4.	Horse champing bit lightly with closed mouth 
5.	Moist lips - relaxed neck muscles open channels to parotid glands, chewing & swallowing produces foam
6.	A purring snort showing mental relaxation

Ask yourself next ride - Is your horse happy 

#horsesmouthsmatter 🤎

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