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Bitless equitation in ancient times
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In recent years, the ability to ride a horse without using a bit, perhaps performing sophisticated dressage exercises, has often been presented as a demonstration of an innovative communication…
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The Corinthian bit
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Unlike what we have said about various civilizations of the Bronze Age, in Greece the practice of burying horse bits in graves was rare. Because of this, not many…
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Bronze Age bits
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini As we have seen in the myth of Pegasus and Bellerophon, in antiquity the application of the bit was considered a decisive moment for the horse’s submission to the…
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The oldest text dedicated to the care and training of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini If the oldest image of a domesticated horse can be traced back to the Sumerian civilization, the earliest written text dedicated to the care and training of the horse…
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The first domestication of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini The domestication of the horse, for the purpose of using it for chariots and equitation, came after a very slow process. The first relationship between horse and human, in…
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An encounter that never occurred. Baucher and Mazzucchelli
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In 1948, the General Albert Decarpentry published a famous biography of the greatest French horseman of the nineteenth century, François Baucher. Speaking of his early years, Decarpentry said that…
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