CH. XIII 



THREE ABREAST 



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lessen the danger of his so doing. The leader 

 should have a hip strap. 



The question which is the more difficult to drive, 

 four horses or a tandem, is frequently discussed ; 

 almost any kind of a horse can be driven in a 

 team, but a tandem leader must have reasonably 

 decent manners, or he will be impossible ; on the 

 other hand, more strength is needed to drive four 

 horses than to drive two, and a coach can be up- 

 set, whereas a cart can twist about in almost any 

 space. 



The position so frequently described, of a tandem 

 leader's turning round and looking the driver in the 

 face, can be usually corrected by backing the shaft 

 horse until the traces become straight again. 



Since the handling of the reins is much the same 

 as that for four horses, Tan- 

 dem-driving is not a bad in- 

 troduction to Coaching. 



Three Abreast. — Three 

 horses driven abreast in the 

 lead require the arrange- 

 ment of bars shown in Fig. 

 35 ; when they are at the wheel, their traces are 

 attached to a long splinter-bar which has six roller- 

 bolts. The best way of running the reins is shown 

 in Fig. 1 30. 



In the South of Italy, a third horse is often used 

 as an out-rigger to a pair ; he is put on the near side, 



