520 RULES FOR JUDGING CH. XXIV 



It seems hardly necessary to add that a start 

 should not be made unless there is room to eo 

 somewhere, but one often sees an inexperienced 

 coachman try it, with awkward results. 



Judging at Horse-Shows. — It has become the 

 custom at Horse-Shows to make classes for Har- 

 ness Horses, which classes include the vehicles to 

 which the horses are shown, together with the har- 

 ness and liveries ; these appointments, as they are 

 usually termed, count for fifty per cent, and the 

 horses for fifty per cent., in making up the number 

 of points for the award. The Coaching Club in 

 New York has formulated, as suo-o-estions to Judges 



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and Exhibitors, certain Rules for Judging, which are 

 here reproduced by permission of the Club. These 

 Rules will be found to agree with the descriptions 

 of coaches and harness given in the earlier pages 

 of this book, and, being a codification of the best 

 practice among coaching men, may be taken as a 

 guide for turning out a coach properly. 



The Rules are printed in double column, for con- 

 venience in comparing drags and public-coaches : — 



The Drag. The Coach. 



The Drag should have a perch The Road-Coach should be 

 and be less heavy than a Road- built stronger than a Park Drag, 

 Coach and more highly finished, especially as to the under-carriage 

 with crest or monogram on the and axles, which latter should not 

 door panels or hind boot. measure less than two inches in 



diameter. 



