FIG. | | PAGE |
| Curricle | Frontispiece |
1. | Single Harness on Horse | 1 |
2. | Single Harness—Position of the Hands | 24 |
3. | Single Harness—Right Hand in wrong Position | 27 |
4. | Shortening Reins | 31 |
5. | Shortening Reins by sliding Left Hand up to Right | 33 |
6. | Dog-cart | 38 |
7. | Double Harness on Horse | 44 |
8. | Coupling Reins properly fitted—Horses’ Heads straight | 49 |
9. | Coupling Reins of equal Length | 51 |
10. | Off-side Coupling Rein fitted for Horse which Pokes his Nose, near Coupling Rein fitted for Horse which carries Head in Chest | 53 |
11. | Pole fitted with Spring for Curricle | 61 |
12. | Curricle Bar and Roller Bolts | 63 |
13. | Cape-cart Harness | 69 |
14. | Springing a Hill | 74 |
15. | Practising Driving with the Weights | 77 |
16. | Four Weights and Pulleys for practising Driving | 78 |
17. | FOUR-IN-HAND—How to hold Reins | 83 |
18. | Steadying Team with Right Hand | 89 |
19. | How Loop should be taken up | 90 |
20. | Looping near-lead Rein under Thumb | 91 |
21. | Looping off-lead Rein under Thumb | 92 |
22. | Looping off-lead Rein under First Finger | 93 |
23. | Right Hand on off-side Reins to prevent Wheelers cutting Corner | 95 |
24. | Opposition Point to the Right | 97 |
25. | Opposition Point to the Left | 99 |
26. | Result of holding Whip in wrong Position | 103 |
27. | Preparing to catch Thong | 105 |
28. | Thong caught up before Loop has been taken off | 107 |
29. | Taking off Loop | 108 |
30. | Securing Lash by twisting it round Handle of Whip | 110 |
31. | Bringing back Thong of Whip after hitting a Leader | 115 |
32. | Taking Leaders’ Reins out of Left Hand with Right Hand | 137 |
33. | Right Hand assisting Left (on three Reins only) | 151 |
34. | FIG. 1.—SINGLE HARNESS ON HORSE.
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