DRIVING FOR PLEASURE.
It will be noticed that this harness has ring draught hames, together with horseshoe buckles. The hames themselves are made mainly of brass, but the hooks at the throat of the collar, the shoulders which carry the rings, together with the rings themselves, are of steel, which must be kept burnished. The eyes on the wheeler's trace buckles, into which the leader's traces are snapped, are also of steel.
POLE CHAINS VERSUS POLE PIECES.
This point seems to be very little understood in this country. The pole chain is for use on carriages intended for their owners' driving alone. They should not be used on any carriage to be driven by a servant. The proper chain for sporting work is a plain single oval link with a single snap hook at either end, or with a ring or delta in one end and a snap hook in the other. The links in chains intended for purely park driving are made a little more square in shape, and have a single snap hook in each end. Twisted or double chains or double snap hooks should never be used; the latter allow of the drop
ping of two' or three links-a most reprehensible practice, hence the "clanking pole chains."
Many owners of private stables are so occupied as to be unable to give them the necessary super
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