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ferred there is no objection to them, always 

 bearing in mind, however, that the lead traces 

 should not be one inch Icnger than is necessary. 

 The shorter a tandem is the better it looks, and 

 the easier it is to drive. Collars look smarter 

 and are a better method of draught than breast 

 harness. The only advantage that I can see 

 in the latter is that it fits any pony. This is 

 no doubt a gain, for tandem is a very useful 

 way of driving in a polo stable. There is no 

 better way of exercising the choicest animals of 

 the stud than putting them in the lead of a 

 tandem. Trotting out with no weight on their 

 backs is capital exercise, and exercise is just 

 the one thing of which there is seldom enough 

 in a polo stable. And here I may say that 

 tandem-driving is more suited for small than 

 large animals, and it certainly looks much 

 better. 



Polo playing and tandem-driving go well 

 together. I remember well when living at 

 some distance from a polo ground in India, I 

 often put two ponies into a tandem cart and 

 drove the five or six miles, with my groom up 

 behind with sticks and saddles. I then took 

 the ponies out, played polo, and drove home 

 again, finding both ponies as fresh as possible 

 the next day. In f^ict I look on a tandem cart 

 and harness from all points of view as a most 



