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DRIVING 



When driving a single horse care should be 

 taken not to press unevenly on the reins, the 

 near one especially. Horses driven by good 

 whips have even mouths. Do not drive with 

 slack reins, as so many people do. Shorten your 

 reins from behind, whether you are going down 

 hill or on the level. 



Find out the natural pace and action of your 

 horse, and rarely drive more than seven to, at 

 most, eight miles an hour, because first-rate whips 



DOUBLE-STITCHED REIN 



DOUBLE AMERICAN HAND PART OF DRIVING-REIN 



scorn to drive like butchers' boys. Some horses 

 appear to be moving quicker than they actually 

 are. This is on account of their being well in 

 hand and yet doing their work — running up to 

 their bit, moving with their legs well under them, 

 and looking and behaving as if they were 

 thoroughly intelligent and alert. 



In tandem-driving get a hot leader from 

 choice and a temperate horse in the wheel. Of 

 course a confirmed kicker in the leader is 

 hopeless, and, if possible, more dangerously 

 disastrous than a leader that jibs and a wheeler 

 who pulls. 



Bars in tandem-driving are not so safe as long 



