Talk:Draw reins and running reins

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The Market Harborough was invented in Market Harborough, England, hence the name and this is the term used in the UK and Australia. In Germany it is known as the "English" rein. It has been in use for at least fifty years. Ref.: "Saddlery" -E. Hartley Edwards

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Ironically, we in the states call it a "German Martingale." Funny how language works that way. Of course, Mark Twain once said that the English and the Americans were a people separated by a common language! LOL! Montanabw^(talk) 05:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

TO complicate matters further, I wouldn't even list the thing on this page as any classification of draw rein or running rein, to me it's a type of martingale, but Eventer and I even discovered that there are regional differences in the USA on some of this terminology (what to me is a draw rein isn't precisely what she is thinking of as a draw rein, for example.) But then, I am kind of anti-gadget and prefer to just use a plain old snaffle, so what the heck. Montanabw^(talk) 05:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] the dutch term

The dutch word for this rein is Tiedemann rein. The german rider Tidemann invented this one: the moment the horse works in the "correct" outline (well, the outline the rider has in mind) the rein will act as a completely normal rein. The moment the horse raises its hea above the posture the deems to be correct, the rein will start to lever. When the musqueton is put in really the right place, this is a safety mechamism. The rider will be able to give a slight pull (say: 2 gram) and the horse will feel 4 gram. With the musquton in the wrong place, it is as detrimental as any lever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.160.180.134 (talk) 17:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)