. Riding and driving. Chain and short kidney-links or all chain. Ring draught eyes on hames. One or more bearing-reins are optional. Cruppers with or without back strap. Metal or leather fronts to bridles. If leather, the color tomatch the color of the coach. A crest or monogram is not generally used in road work,but instead lead bars or a special device in brass is put onthe winkers and rosettes. 390 The Drag Hame straps put on with points inside; to the off sideon the near horse and the near side on the off horse. Reins of single brown leather. Draught-reins sewed in
. Riding and driving. Chain and short kidney-links or all chain. Ring draught eyes on hames. One or more bearing-reins are optional. Cruppers with or without back strap. Metal or leather fronts to bridles. If leather, the color tomatch the color of the coach. A crest or monogram is not generally used in road work,but instead lead bars or a special device in brass is put onthe winkers and rosettes. 390 The Drag Hame straps put on with points inside; to the off sideon the near horse and the near side on the off horse. Reins of single brown leather. Draught-reins sewed in one piece with end buckles only. Lead traces with screw-heads of the cock-eyes up. All parts of the harness should be double and neatlystitched. Collars to be of black patent leather, shaped to the neck. The hames bent to fit the collar accurately. Harness black. — .Ml straps should be of proper length,but not too short. When the owner or his representative drives, the stableshutters should be down ; otherwise The Coacb 391 Hame straps put on with points inside; to the off sideon the near horse and the near side on the off horse. Reins of single brown leather. Draught-reins sewed in one piece with end buckles only. Traces with screw-heads of the cock-eyes and chain endsup. All straps preferably of single leather. Collars may be of patent, plain black, or brown leather;straight, thick, and full padded. The hames straight to fit the collar. Harness black or brown. CHAPTER XV THE TANDEM One horse driven in front of the other gave aUniversity wag the opportunity to nickname twohorses so driven a tandem, from the Latin wordmeaning at length, as applied to time. This jokehas crystallized into a familiar English word, andmany tandem drivers to-day include all the Latinin their vocabulary in this form of exercise. The fundamental principles of tandem drivingare much the same as four-in-hand driving, exceptthat the horses turn more quickly, and with lesspressure on the reins
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