Training headstall with loose rigid noseband, and usage and production

A training headstall comprising:

• headgear for adorning a horse's head and providing three flexible suspension lines including left and right lines hanging approximately alongside the left and right sides of the horse's muzzle and a chin line hanging approximately under the horse's chin to throat area;
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• a rigid oblong hoop being generally elongated along a major axis that partitions the hoop in generally left and right sides, said hoop having left and right provisions on opposed sides of the major axis for attachment of the left and right headgear lines in order to suspend the hoop around the horse's muzzle, wherein said hoop is sized to fit relatively loosely around the horse's muzzle which affords the hoop some measure of freedom of movement about the muzzle as suspended by the left and right lines;
• said hoop further having a chin-line attachment provision toward a general rearward portion of said hoop for attachment of the chin line thereto in order to provide optional adjustment of the angle of tilt of the hoop relative the horse's muzzle as well as to impose a measure of constraint on the motion of the hoop about the horse's muzzle once set in motion;
• wherein said hoop is laterally asymmetric relative a plane that both contains the major axis and is perpendicular to another plane which generally contains the hoop in order to enhance quicker settling of motion if the horse learns to stop to a standstill.

A training headstall comprising:

• headgear for adorning a horse's head providing left and right hanging lines on opposite sides of the horse's muzzle and a chin line hanging approximately under the horse's chin to throat area;
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• a rigid noseband being generally oblong along a major axis that partitions the noseband in generally left and right sides, said noseband having left and right provisions on opposed sides of the major axis for attachment of the left and right hanging lines in order to suspend the noseband around the horse's muzzle, wherein said noseband is sized to fit loosely around the horse's muzzle and consequently is afforded some measure of freedom of relative movement on the left and right hanging lines, whereby said freedom of movement includes the ability to deliver the horse an attention-getting tap;
• said noseband further having a chin-line attachment provision toward a general rearward portion of said noseband for attachment of the chin line thereto in order to impose a measure of damping on the motion of the noseband about the horse's muzzle once set in motion;
• wherein said left and right line-attachment provisions are arranged offset relative to each other and as referenced along the major axis in order to enhance quicker settling of the motion with the noseband so that the horse may more surely learn that such motion can be settled by stopping to a standstill.