The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Breast Harness

- A form of harness adopted occasionally, which does away with the collar and gives the horse a breast-strap instead to work against.

Breeching is connected with all the harness upon a horse's hindquarters, which consists of the crupper, a divided strap which is slipped over and behind the horse's tail; the crupper dock connecting this with the saddle. The breeching is the strap which passes round behind the horse, and helps him in backing and stopping a carriage.

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