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by which the assistant can guide him a Httle at first. 

 The breaker should have the trap standing ready 

 in the centre of a field — a level one if possible — and 

 the assistant ready to hold up the shafts. No time 

 should be lost in getting the colt between the shafts 

 and yoking him. He should first fix on the traces 

 (the reins already being adjusted), and then buckle all 

 the straps as quickly and quietly as possible ; but he 

 should not be too much in a hurry as the colt may 

 become excited, which may cause him to move for- 

 ward before he is securely yoked. 



HOW TO FIX THE KICKING STRAPS. 



Instead of having only one kicking -strap, the 

 breaker should have two. He should fix one to the 

 near shaft close to the trap, then pass it through the 

 breechen over the colt's croup, and buckle it to the 

 off shaft immediately before the backhand ring. He 

 should do precisely the same with the other strap 

 from the opposite side, and he has thus double the 

 strength and efficiency of the ordinary method (Fig. 

 10). 



By the use of double straps scarcely any colt, 

 however hard he tries, can kick sufficiently high 

 either to damage himself or the trap, nor can he 

 kick himself out from beneath them as he often 

 does under the ordinary single-strap system. Both 

 straps catch his quarters simultaneously, and no 

 amount of kicking so long as they remain whole, 

 can possibly dislodge them. 



