Education key to changing views on tight nosebands
SCIENCE and education are key to changing views on the tightness of nosebands, experts have agreed.
Last year, Equestrian Canada (EC) launched a noseband measuring pilot with the view of implementing a rule that reflects scientific recommendations; that a horse’s noseband “should not be tight enough to prevent the placement of two adult fingers between the noseband and the frontal nasal plane”.
As finger size can vary, the EC equine health and welfare committee
