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RULES FOR JUDGING 



CH. XXIV 



The Drag — (continued). The Coach — (continued). 



Lamps off. Lamps inside Side lamps in place and ready 



coach. 



for use. 



Park Harness. 



Pole-chains should be bur- 

 nished and have spring hooks. 

 The chains should be of a length 

 which will admit of snapping 

 both hooks into the pole-head 

 ring. If too short, one end 

 should be hooked in the pole- 

 head ring and the other in a 

 link. If too long, one end 

 should be snapped in the pole- 

 head ring, and the other brought 

 through said ring (from the out- 

 side in) and snapped in a link. 



Road Harness. 



Pole-chains should be bur- 

 nished or black, but pole-head 

 and chains must be alike. Hooks 

 should have india-rubber rings, 

 not spring hooks. Chains with 

 single hooks should be put on 

 pole-head from inside, out ; then 

 passed through the kidney-link 

 and hooked into one of the links 

 of the chain. 



Cruppers, with buckles, on all 

 horses preferred. 



Cruppers, with or without 

 buckles, on wheelers, but not 

 necessarily on leaders, unless 

 bearing-reins are used. Martin- 

 gale back-strap. Trace-bearers 

 on the leaders from the hames to 

 the tug-buckles are permissible. 



Loin-straps and trace-bearers 

 are permissible. 



Xo loin-straps. 



Face-pieces (drops). 



Face-pieces (optional). 



Martingales around the collars Martingales around the collars 

 of wheelers and not through kid- and not through kidney-links 

 nev-links alone. alone. 



