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their reins, in order to prevent the slack of the rein from 

 flying about ; the knot being made so that the buckle points 

 down. The fashion for the last twenty-five years, or longer, 



Photo. by [CLARENCE HAILEY, Newmarket. 



Fig. 243. J. H. Martin on Joe Chamberlain. 



is to use a single rein on a snaffle, even with a martin- 

 gale, in preference to double reins. John Osborne, who was 

 second to none as a great jockey, and Edwin Martin, who 

 won the Cambridgeshire on Bathilde, give me their opinion 



