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back is best avoided by placing the rider's weight 

 in the centre, so with the collar, injury to the neck 

 and shoulder is best avoided by getting the pull from 

 the middle, and for the same reason in both cases, 

 because the pressure is then distributed over the whole 

 surface instead of being concentrated on a point. In 

 like manner, as the pressure of the rider's weight on 



Fig. 17. 



one end of a saddle tilts up the other end and causes 

 it to run forward, so will the pull on one end of the 

 collar cause it to gape away from the horse's neck at 

 the other end, and grind up or downwards as the case 

 may be. But the collar is in this respect worse than 

 the saddle, because the rider's weight falls directly 

 downwards for the most part, whereas the pull on the 



