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METHODS OF HORSE-CONTROL. 



Tying up a fore leg. — Having *' picked up " the foot, 

 we may secure it in either of the two following ways : — 



I. By Rarey's leg-strap, which is about 3 ft. long, and is 

 furnished at one end with a buckle, below which a leather 

 "keeper" is placed on both sides (see Fig. 33). To apply 



it, the free end is passed round 

 the pastern, from the outside, 

 through the keeper at the back 

 of the buckle, thus forming a 

 loop. Another turn is taken 

 round the fore arm, and a second 

 loop is made by passing the end 

 through the buckle. The strap 

 can now be tightened up as may 

 be required, and the end run 

 through the second keeper. Figs. 

 34 and 35 show how this can 

 be done equally well with a stir- 

 rup leather, with which two or 

 three turns have been taken round 

 the pastern, so as to bring the 

 punched holes sufficiently near 

 the buckle. The objections to 

 the employment of this method 

 of tying up the leg, whether with 

 a Rarey's strap or with a stirrup leather, are : {a) That 

 it is apt to irritate the animal by the compression 

 needed to keep the strap in its place ; {b) That, when 

 the leg is thus fixed, the horse, in the event of his 

 " coming down," is liable to hurt his knee ; " capped knee " 



I^'ig- 33' — Rarey's leg-strap. 



