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should be worn at all times in the stable. They should 

 also be put on such young ones as are inclined to those 

 habits on their first being brought from their paddocks 

 to the stables. 



The common Dutch collars used for tying up 

 the horses in the stables are as convenient as any 

 others; but for a horse which is in the habit of 

 getting himself loose by rubbing his collar off, it is 

 necessary to have a neck strap. There should be a 

 loop or runner on each cheek or side of the collar, for 

 the strap of the setting muzzle to pass through, to 

 keep the muzzle on, and more firmly fixed in its situ- 

 ation. It is safer, and much more convenient, than 

 tying a piece of string or tape round these parts of the 

 muzzle and collar, as was formerly the practice with 

 training grooms on such occasions. The rein of the 

 collar should be made to buckle on to it, and not to be 

 sewed. A dressing muzzle should be made of stout 

 neat's leather ; the bars or broad straps of this muzzle 

 ought to be in length from seventeen to eighteen inches; 

 in breadth, they should be from two and a half to three 

 inches. These straps should be lined with sheet iron, 

 crossed in the centre, and there rivetted together. The 

 strap which goes round and forms the top part of the 

 muzzle should be of the breadth of the two first men- 

 tioned, but in length it should be two feet four. The 

 strap for securing the muzzle when on the horse's head 

 should be in length three feet six, and the strap for the 

 buckle on the opposite side, should not be more than 

 two inches in length. 



