The horse now wears a bridle: a leather headstall over the poll behind the ears, a browband, a loose-ring bit at the corners of the mouth, and two reins that run from the bit along the neck into your left hand.

Get on and look from the side, standing still and then walking. When this landed your left fist closed round the reins about a hand above the saddle horn; since November 7 it rides low, just ahead of the horn over the withers. The rein ends hang down the near shoulder, and since November 7 each rein loops round the horn on its own side when nobody is riding. A playtest on November 6 found the reins bending at right angles and crossing through the head, and they were rebuilt as hanging leather over the next two days.