Neue Schule

About Neue Schule bits

Neue Schule bits began with Heather Hyde, who ran one of the first horse bit rental companies in the UK in the late 1990s and saw a gap opening as the traditional British loriners’ trade declined. Neue Schule is German for “new school”, and the company describes its designs as a rethink of traditional bits.

Neue Schule makes its bits in its own Salox Gold material. Its research pages explain the choice in terms of how warm and how soft a metal feels in the horse’s mouth.

The Neue Schule ranges we stock, and the horses they are designed for:

• Turtle Top is double jointed, with a domed centre link that lines up with the palate and keeps the mouthpiece centred and arched over the tongue. It is aimed at the inattentive or busy mouth.
• Turtle Tactio is built for a large or sensitive tongue. It puts rein pressure on the centre of the tongue and keeps it away from the bars.
• Tranz Angled Lozenge is double jointed with an angled lozenge. In the Baucher version, Neue Schule says the usual response from a horse that resists or comes above the bit is to lower the head and soften.
• Verbindend is a curved, dressage-legal snaffle that Neue Schule credits with clearing up tongue evasions and helping with bend.
• Demi Anky is single jointed but curved, so it avoids the nutcracker action of a straight single joint. It suits horses that back off the contact, or the rare horse that dislikes a lozenge.

You will also find TongueKIND and BarSMART loose rings, pony sizes and several Weymouths (Mors L’Hotte, Transform, Thoroughbred and Turtle Tilt) for the double bridle.

Many of the metal bits, this Neue Schule range included, can go on our 30 day Bit Bank trial, so you can try one on your own horse before you buy.