Bit guard

<p>Resembling a bit guard is a  bit burr (sometimes burr bit, also bubble cheeker in Australia), which has teeth laid against the horse's cheek.  The burr bit was for a time widely used on coach horses in New York City, until the use was stopped in part through the efforts of <a href="/facts/Henry_Bergh/r1dx7oYJ">Henry Bergh</a> circa 1879.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>  Bubble cheekers are approved for use in <a href="/facts/Thoroughbred_racing/WqlB0TUg">thoroughbred racing</a> in Australia.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<li id="fn:1"><p>Wood, John George (1885) Horse and Man: Their Mutual Dependence and Duties, Longmans, Green, 339 pages, page 221. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Dion Villella. "Register of Nationally Approved Gear" (PDF). Racing Victoria Limited. Retrieved 2010-12-03. <a href="http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/asset/cms/Stewards%20Notifications%20PDF/128312%20RVL%20Gear%20Register%20Book.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/asset/cms/Stewards%20Notifications%20PDF/128312%20RVL%20Gear%20Register%20Book.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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