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retaining the marrow, or at least giving the heads 

 and cardinal points of instruction. 



All fast, go 6n ! — Management of high blowers, 

 or broken-winded horses, to enable them to keep their 

 time : " If distressed, keep them off their collar, and 

 let them only carry their harness for a hundred 

 yards or so, and they will recover if their condition is 

 good. They work best by night, escaping the heat 

 of the sun, and without the throat lash ; which, in- 

 deed, should ever be omitted in very hot weather 

 with leaders, granting they can be driven without it ; 

 and horses in general pull more freely and pleasantly 

 without it. A coachhorse cannot carry his head too 

 high, provided he is obedient to the hand ; a horse 

 going with his head down has a mean appearance." 

 I acknowledge, that a coachhorse carrying his head 

 high, has a finer and more stately appearance than 

 one carrying the head lower, and as may be said, 

 more naturally ; but, assuredly, appearance and show 

 have most to do in the case, as the artificial elevation 

 of the head reduces the power of traction in the 

 horse, which seems proved by the level in which the 

 slow draught horse holds his head when making his 

 utmost exertions. The use of the bearing rein is to 

 enforce and accustom the horse to this elevation of 

 the head, and that rein certainly gives the driver a 

 greater command over his horses. 



"Temper in harness horses is much to be re- 

 garded (indeed in all others). Some coachmen would 

 have a horse never to know his place, but to take all 

 equally and indifferently, whether wheeler or leader, 

 or to work on either side. A horse fancying his place, 



