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MARTINGALE 



CH. XI 



as A, but has in addition a ring-, to which the tug is 

 sewed, and is generally used on public-coaches, 

 while A and B are used in drag-harness ; D, called 



Fig. 99. 



from its shape the olive, is almost universal in French 

 cab-harness, but is rarely used in other harness, 

 although it has the advantage that the tug can be 

 readily detached by turning it a quarter round. It 

 is not so strong as any of the other forms, C being 

 the strongest of all, and, therefore, very properly 

 adopted for public-coach harness. 



It is usual in public-coach harness to leave the 

 steel end of the draught-eye unplated ; the brass 

 plating is apt to wear at that place and look ragged ; 

 the ring: is also steel. 



The draught-eyes should be long and should stand 

 out well, to prevent the trace from chafing the collar. 



Martingale. — The bottom of the collar is kept 

 from rising by the martingale, which passes from 

 it, between the fore legs of the horse, to the belly- 

 band. When a horse is holding back, on a hill, 

 the pole-chain pulls on the kidney-link and names, 

 and the martingale must, therefore, pass round the 



