194 THE BREAST-PLATE AND MARTINGALE. 



THE FILLET-STRAP. 



Fillet-Straps are diminutive loin-straps and are used in 



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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. 



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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 



