Cheekpieces

For Gibbs, who equipped the gelding with cheekpieces, it was a career-high moment, yet it was also slightly bittersweet.

Ikarak though is perhaps taken to improve here, having finished runner up twice since and with cheekpieces on as well, with Doughmore Bay a faller on his last outing.

First-time cheekpieces need to work the oracle.

He has cheekpieces on for the first time today and, provided he’s over that mishap, can run well again.

His owner-breeder proposed cheekpieces in the King George.

That was back in May but he'll almost certainly be fit enough to do himself justice now back over hurdles in first-time cheekpieces.

All of the dated chariot graves contained wheel impressions, horse bones, weapons (arrow and javelin points, axes, daggers, or stone mace-heads), human skeletal remains, and cheekpieces.

Because they were buried in teams of two with chariots and studded cheekpieces, the evidence is extremely persuasive that these steppe horses of 2100–1700 BCE were domesticated.

Studded cheekpieces were a new and fairly severe kind of control device that appeared simultaneously with chariots.