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1. A type of tack placed upon a horse or other animal in order to hitch it to a cart, plow, wagon or other horse-drawn vehicle. [1]: 101 2. To harness a horse is to put the harness on the horse. harness racing, trotting races The sport of racing horses in harness, pulling a very light single-person cart called a sulky. The horses usually trot ...
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The lawn ornament, popular in certain parts of the United States and Canada in years past, [1] was a cast replica, usually about half-scale or smaller, generally of a man dressed in jockey's clothing and holding up one hand as though taking the reins of a horse. The hand sometimes carries a metal ring (suitable for hitching a horse in the case ...
According to Timeform, one of its ratings represents "the merit of the horse expressed in pounds and is arrived at by careful examination of its running against other horses using a scale of weight for distance beaten which ranges from around 3 lb a length at five furlongs and 2 lb a length at a mile and a quarter to 1 lb a length at two miles".
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A hitching post is a post to which a horse (or other animal) may be tethered to prevent it from straying. The term can also refer to: The term can also refer to: Look up hitching post in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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A horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a horse-drawn vehicle or another type of load to pull. There are two main designs of horse harness: (1) the breast collar or breaststrap, and (2) the full collar or collar-and-hames. For pulling heavy loads, a full collar is required because it distributes pressure over a larger area of the ...