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DRIVING FOR PLEASURE.
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THE DRAG.
It is usual for a park drag to be fitted with luncheon boxes, wine racks, etc. ; also a box on the roof called an " imperial." This latter is never carried except when going to the races or a luncheon.
THE COACH.
links or a pair of pole pieces. An extra bit.
The guard should be appropriately dressed, and should have a way-bill pouch with a watch fitted on one side, and a place provided for the key of the hind boot.
ROAD HARNESS.
Pole chains should be burnished or black, but pole head and chains should be alike. Hooks should have India-rubber rings, not spring hooks. Chains with single hooks should be put on pole head from inside out, then passed through the kidney link and hooked into one of the links of the chain.
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PARK HARNESS.
Pole chains should be burnished and have spring hooks. The chains should be of a length which will permit of snapping both hooks into the pole ring. If too short, one end should be hooked in the polehead ring and the other in a link. If too long, one end should be snapped in the pole-head ring, and the other brought through said ring (from the outside in) and snapped in a link.
Cruppers with buckles on all horses.*
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Cruppers with or without buckles on wheelers, but not necessarily on leaders, unless bearing reins are used. Martingale back strap. Trace bearers on the leaders from the hames to tug buckles are permissible.
Loin straps and trace bearers No loin straps.
are permissible.
* While cruppers with buckles are perfectly proper, it seems unwise to make them compulsory. Many experienced amateurs are opposed to the use of buckles on the cruppers of any park harness, and in the author's opinion justifiably so.
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