SUSPENDING FORE LEG. 



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convenient height from the ground without irritating 

 the horse, and, consequently, without inciting him to 

 " fight." 



I have learned, on more than one occasion, by painful 

 experience, that it is possible for a horse to effectually cow- 

 kick with the hind leg of the side on which a fore leg is 

 tied-up. 



A stirrup leather, with two or three holes punched at con- 

 venient distances, will, as I have said on page 124, make 



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Fig. 36. — Suspending horse's fore leg to surcingle. 



a capital leg-strap (see Fig. 34). It has the advantage of 

 having, at the back of the buckle, no leather keeper, which 

 is always liable to give way, by reason of the strain exerted 

 on it. 



For suspending a fore leg, we need punch no extra holes 

 in the stirrup leather, if we take, as already described, a few 

 turns with it round the pastern, before passing its end 



