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THE BREAST-PLATE AND MARTINGALE. 



THE FILLET-STRAP. 



FILLET-STRAPS are diminutive loin-straps and are used in 

 the same manner, except placed nearer the saddle. Their 

 use is not desirable. 



THE BREAST-PLATE. 



BREAST-PLATES (see B, Fig. 76) are narrow strips of leather 

 with a loop at one end, made adjustable by a buckle, and held 

 in place by the pad-girth, but not the trace-girth. The other 

 end is sewed to the back of a frog, on the face of which a 

 monogram, etc., may be placed. The top of the frog is 

 attached by a metal D to a strap with a long billet which 

 enables it to be fastened into the kidney-link or around the 

 collar if occasion requires. In appointment classes the 

 billet should be fastened around the inside of the jointed 

 kidney-link against the collar. The breast-plate should be 

 made short enough to hold the bottom of the collar in place, 

 and used only with pole-pieces or pole-chains, as it is intended 

 to hold the collar in place when acted upon by the forward 

 pressure of the pole. 



THE MARTINGALE. 



THE MARTINGALE (see A, Fig. 76), as applied to harness, is 

 always the standing pattern, except for road-horse harness. 

 It is similar in all respects to the breast-plate, except that 



