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CHAPTER XIII 

 DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENTS OF HARNESS 



Tandem. — Since tandem driving is not included in 

 the plan of this book, and is, moreover, fully de- 

 scribed in Hints to Young Tandem Drivers, and in 

 the Badminton volume on Driving, only the mode 

 of harnessing for tandem will be described. The 

 shaft horse has the usual gig-harness, with the ad- 

 dition of rings on the throat-latch for the lead-reins 

 to pass through, and pad-terrets with horizontal 

 bars across their centres to divide the lead-reins 

 and shaft-reins. The lead-harness is light, and the 

 traces are long enough to reach to the tug-buckles 

 of the shaft horse, these buckles having eyes on 

 them, as shown in Fig. 118. If the lead-traces 

 are hooked to the points of the shafts there is 

 more danger of the leader's pulling the shaft horse 

 down in turning, than when they are hooked to the 

 buckles. 



Lead- traces should not be extravagantly long, 10 

 ft. 4 in. is sufficient ; any team looks better and is 

 more handy, if compact, and, should the leader be- 

 have badly, the longer the trace the more likely he 

 is to get his leg over it. Lady Georgiaxa Curzon, 

 in the Badminton volume on Driving, describes an 

 arrangement of light lead-bars, which seems to 



