It’s fit really good on my mare and she listens to it really well, it’s flexible and not stiff so easy to move around, I love this bit, 10/10

Hey there! I'm the one review that's got the big paragraph toting on how this bit is great with the most helpfuls. Please for everything that is in my soul, disregard that review because honestly I was uneducated on how gag bits truly worked and was being guided by folks who put tom thumbs and twisted wire curved snaffles backwards on the bridle (I'm NOT making this up either). For the longest time I was sold on presignal and now that I understand how they work, gags offer no presignal at all. They are always engaged even at a rest, the horse cannot hold the bit comfortably in the mouth and they are very unstable. Gag bits also, by nature and physics alone, pull the lips into the premolars when engaged. They also hollow out the back by telling the horse to lift the head (mouth pressure) and also lower the head (poll pressure), and this strings out the hind end. You won't ever have a collected horse in a gag bit and I'm EXTREMELY ashamed of my initial review. It's well made, and it's very light, but it is still a trash bit that has absolutely no place in a horse's mouth. No, "soft hands" is not an argument here. The gag bit will always be an issue even without reins attached. My horse went well in it because she didn't have a choice. Any sort of protest or communication would have been immediately shut down by the bit's conflicting cues, and I'd have ignored them had I not seen the videos or photos. NOBODY wants to believe what they are doing is hurting their horse. We love our horses, all of us, at one point, even if we're scared of hurt by one of them. We have ALWAYS loved our animals, from one end of the earth to another, and it takes a whole lot of work to admit you are wrong and that there are better ways. I'd like to add the inventor of the original gag bit in the early 1900s advertised it as a tool of pain to get the horse to hurt in the mouth, so they could not get away from you. He admitted the bit was for pain, and under no circumstance did he dress it up with pretty words like softening the mouth, lifting the shoulder, and conforming gently to the tongue. It just is physically impossible and even the inventor knew that. Makers need to get it together and stop leading new buyers astray. These bits do NOT function, CANNOT function as they are advertised. It's quite literally impossible. Please don't make the same mistake as I did.