A PAIR. 303 
THE BREECHEN is sometimes made of the form shown in the last page, 
combining it with the kicking strap, which is intended to keep down 
the croup, when the horse attempts to indulge in that dangerous vice. 
The kicking-strap is made to pass over the hips, and buckles to a loop or 
tug which encireles each shaft. To this is suspended by another buckle 
at (0), which can be taken up or let down at will, a breechen on the ordi- 
nary plan, but it must be made of stout leather, or it will not be stiff 
enough to support itself. 
BREAST STRAP, 
IN THE DRAWING PART a breast strap is sometimes substituted for the 
collar, its shape being shown in the above engraving at (6). It is 
merely a broad padded strap to which the traces are buckled, and it is 
supported by a withers strap, which is likewise buckled to it. It has the 
advantage of being lighter than the collar, but with heavy weights to 
draw it confines the shoulders, and it is now very little used excepting 
for “ black work” and match-trotting. 
AY PATE: 
Pain HORSE HARNESS only differs in detail from that already described, 
both being made on the same principle. Double harness consists, like single 
harness, of three essential parts ; but as there is no shaft to be supported, 
the pad is much lighter and more simple. The drawing part is similar to 
that already described, except that the lower eyes of the hames are per- 
manently connected by an oval piece of metal, upon the lower part of 
which a ring freely travels, to which the pole-piece of the carriage 1s 
buckled, and by which it is backed. The trace-buckles, also, are oppo- 
site the pad, and supported from it by a light strap, called the trace- 
bearer. The traces themselves either end with an eye, or, with a full 
fold upon themselves, with an iron eye, called a roller, and intended to be 
used upon the roller-bolt of the splinter-bar. The pad is very light, and 
nas no back-band ; sometimes a long breechen runs to the trace-buckle ; 
but for light harness a mere supporting strap for the traces, called a hip- 
strap, is all that is used. The bridle is nearly the same as for single har- 
ness, except that there are no ornaments on that side which is towards 
the pole. The reins have, in addition to the single rein which is attached 
to the outside of each horse’s bit, another called a coupling-rein, which has 
a buckle towards the driver running upon the driving-rein, so that it may 
be taken up or let out at pleasure, according to the mouth of the horse 
