CH. XI COCK HORSE HARNESS 237 



The rope, which passes between the leaders, and 

 is hooked to the pole-hook on top of the main-bar, 

 should be 10 feet long, including its two hooks. It 

 is a good plan to wrap the rope for a distance of two 

 feet with sheepskin, with the wool-side out, where it 

 comes against the shoulders of the leaders, to pre- 

 vent chafing them. The hip-strap, shown in the plate 

 immediately behind the saddle, is perhaps hardly 

 necessary. A strap, 3 feet long, with a spring hook 

 at each end, should be provided, to fasten into the 

 kidney-links of the leaders' collars, across from one 

 horse to the other, on which the rope may rest when 

 the cock-horse is not pulling. It is well to have a 

 ring, about three inches in diameter, in the middle 

 of this strap, through which the rope is passed. 



The cock horse bridle is like the bridles of the 

 other horses. 



If two extra horses are required, they have the 

 regular lead-harness, with the addition of a saddle 

 on the near horse, and with a set of bars attached 

 to the rope ; or they may have traces 

 long enough to reach back to the 

 tug-buckles of the leaders, as in an 

 equipage a la Daumont, in which case Fig. 118. 

 the tug-buckles of the lead-harness must be made 

 with eyes to take the hooks of the traces (Fig. 118), 

 exactly like a tandem harness. These traces must 

 be 10 ft. 8 in. long from tug-buckle to hook. 



Compare Plate VI., Rowlandson, in which the 

 regular leaders are thus harnessed. 



