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Title: The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Armatage, George Ballantyne, Hanson and Co Frederick Warne (Firm)
Subjects: Horses Horses Veterinary medicine Horsemanship Horse breeds
Publisher: London : Frederick Warne and Co. and New York
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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horse until he is under them,when they are dropped down, and the tugs slipped underor over the ends of the shafts, according to the formationof the tugs, some being hooks, and others merely leatherloops. Care must be taken that they do not slip beyondthe pins on the shafts. The traces are now attached tothe drawing-bar, the breechen or kicking-strap buckled,and the false belly-band buckled up pretty tightly, so as tokeep the shafts steady. In four-wheeled carriages it shouldbe left tolerably loose when a breechen is used, to allowof this having free play. The reins are now untwisted fromthe terret, and the horse is put-to. For double harness,the first thing is to bring the horse round by the side ofthe pole, and put the pole-piece through the sliding ringof the hames, the groom holding it, or else buckling it atthe longest hole while the traces are being put-to ; as soonas this is done, the pole-piece is buckled up to its properlength, each coupling-rein buckled to the opposite horses
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w 3 2 * « 5 -6 a:^ Stable Vices. 89 bit, the driving-reins untwisted from the tercet, and thetwo buckled together, and the horses are ready. Theleaders of a tandem or four-in-hand are easily attached,and their reins are passed through the rings on the headof the wheelers, and through the upper half of the padterret. Unharnessing is exactly the reverse of the above, every-thing being undone exactly in the same order in which itwas done. The chief errors in either are—in double har-ness, in not attaching the pole-piece at once in putting-to,or in unbuckling it altogether too soon, by which the horseis at liberty to get back upon the bars, and often doesconsiderable damage by kicking. Cleaning Harness, &c. Both single and double harness should be of the bestleather and workmanship. The harness for carriage horses of all sorts is too wellknown to need repetition here j the only difference is thatsome prefer it very neat, and only use what is absolutelynecessary, while others like i

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