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BREAKING ON FOOT. 



The driving-pad, which is an invention of mine, consists 

 of an iron plate to which a piece of rod-iron of suitable size 

 and shape is securely riveted (see Figs. 82 and 83). The 

 plate is about twenty-six inches long, one-eighth of an 

 inch thick, five inches broad at its widest part, and is 

 made to fit the back. The rod is about two-thirds of an 

 inch in diameter, and is curved in a special manner, so as 

 to prevent the " outward " rein from going over the withers 



Fig. SOA. Standing martingale shortened. 



and also to keep it, when required, on about a level with 

 the withers. Above, and on each side of the top of the 

 arch of the iron plate, is attached an iron ring, through 

 which to pass the outward rein, in the event of the breaker 

 wishing to obviate any possibility of this rein slipping 

 over the pad, as might happen in the case of a particularly 

 wild horse that was driven on foot for the first time. If 

 this precaution be adopted, the breaker, when he desires to 

 change the direction of the circle on which he is driving 



