Fiador (tack)

In falconry, the small long line that is fastened to the hawk's leash when she is first lured, to bring her back at pleasure.

There are very curious jáquimas and bozalillos, and both are very necessary for the horse.”Don Carlos Rincón Gallardo, 3rd Duke of Regla, 4th Marquess of Guadalupe, simply defined the fiador as: “the part that attaches the bozal to the throatlatch.”[5] By the mid 19th century (prior to the 1860s) it was also in use in Argentina,[6] and it also appears in a 1911 dictionary of argentinismos.

In Mexico, the United States and Canada, the fiador is a type of throatlatch used on heavier styles of bosal hackamore.

[8] [9] This design crosses over the horse's head at the poll, with a knot under the jawbone, and attaches to the hackamore at the noseband or bosal.

[10] The fiador is attached to a headstall via a common (shared) browband, and its opposite end is tied to the bottom of a noseband or bosal, leaving a small loop.

The double loop runs forward to the heel knot of the bosal, where it is traditionally attached using what sailors call the bottle sling.

In North America, a fiador is used most often on some bosal-style hackamores to stabilize a heavy bosal noseband on the horse's head.

[15] On rope halters, particularly designs that can also be used as a type of hackamore or bitless bridle, a fiador is fully incorporated into the headgear and is not detachable.