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METHODS OF HORSE-CONTROL. 



assistant from behind. Before doing this, the traces should 

 be let out, to be pulled tightly the moment the breeching 

 slips over the tail. In this and other cases of difficulty, 

 ropes may be attached to the ends of the traces, so that 

 the assistants who hold them need run no risk of getting 

 kicked. 



When the horse strikes out as well as kicks, the different 

 parts of the strait-jacket may be connected together, with 

 the exception of, say, the near trace, the end of which may 



Fig- 53- Strait-jacket. 



be held by an assistant while another helper holds a rope 

 attached to a D which is on the near side of the breast- 

 band. The loop formed by the breast-band and its back- 

 strap is now passed over the horse's neck, the end of the 

 near trace passed through the near side D of the breast- 

 band, and the remaining fixings accomplished. If the 

 animal be not very violent, the gear may be connected 

 together, the loop made by the breast-band and its back- 

 strap passed over the head and neck, and the breeching 

 pulled over the croup by a rope. 



