THE CAVESSON, SNAFFLE, ETC. V]l 



right snaffle-rein into the right hand, and the other 

 snaffle-rein into the left ditto, we can place the horse's 

 head in any position we desire, and get a pull on the 

 horse's mouth either horizontally, upwards, or down- 

 wards as may seem expedient.* 



The training-halter offers no obstacle to the employ- 

 ment of this running-rein j indeed they may be may 

 advantageously used in combination, and afford a most 

 perfect command over the horse's head without the 

 slightest approach to violence, and by slackening the 

 end of the running-rein held in the right hand, its 

 action may at once be put an end to, unlike all other 

 contrivances of this nature, vrhich are too apt to get 

 hitched, t 



The use of Seeger's running-rein for race-horses isper- 

 fectly unobjectionable. It gives the rider an immense 

 power over his horse, which may be used momen- 

 tarily, to check an attempt to bolt, for instance, and 

 immediately relaxed, or it may be kept constantly in 

 moderate action — for instance, with a horse inclined 

 to throw up his head too high — and all this without 

 interfering with his running; on the contrary, by 

 using this rein one may dispense with sharp snaffles 

 or curbed bits which so frequently have that effect. 

 Seeger himself, hovvcver, thinks it unsuited to racing 

 or hunting purposes. 



But it is chiefly in the handling of young animals, 



* ■* The advantage as compared with other running.reins is, that 

 the position of the horse's head depends on the length of rein 

 grasped, andnot on the force apphed. 



+ Mr. Childs, saddler, St. Mary's, High Street, Bedford, has 

 patterns of the training-halter and the running-reins. 



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