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employed (Fig. 38) than when it is absent, and when this 

 leather ring is placed more or less at right angles to the 

 horse's neck (Fig. 39), supposing that this leather ring is 



Fig. 39. Head-collar without a front. 



equally tight in both instances. Hence, removing the 

 forehead-band, drawing back the crown-piece, and tighten- 

 ing it a few holes, is an effective means for preventing a 

 horse from " slipping his head-collar," which is a trick that 

 some horses are much addicted to. This device has the 

 disadvantage that its adoption causes the mane to become 

 worn at the spot over which the crown strap of the head- 

 collar passes. A more elaborate plan of checking the practice 

 of head-collar slipping is to provide the head-collar with 

 a separate throat-latch, which is passed through the rear 

 loop of a strap that is about 4 inches long, and has a loop 

 at its front end for the crown-piece (Fig. 40). Fig. 41 shows 

 another variety of a head-collar with a separate throat-latch. 



Although horses addicted to head-collar slipping are very 

 artful in avoiding observation when they are putting their 



