curious about sheepskin nosebands

[Stella2]

could someone tell me the purpose of sheepskin nosebands? I often see them on Showjumpers and race horses. I'm guessing they are to influence vision similar to blinkers, but I'm not sure and I'm curious :confused:

[Merlinz gal]

they encourage the horse to lower its heador are used on horses with sensitive faces

[DITZ]

for use on horses who tend to throw their head up , the sheepskin means they have to lower their head in order to see over it.

[Stella2]

Cheers :) I knew it had to be something to do with vision.

[eventerbabe]

if the horse raises its head, then it can't see over the sheepskin, hence if it wants to see, it has to lower its head ;) i used to use one on toby when he was a bit younger as he was a bugger for throwing his head about and i didn't want to use a martingale on him. old pony used to have one for jumping as we'd approach fences with his head very high.