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2. Horse harness - Wikipedia

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   Plow Harness. Similar to wagon harness but without breeching, used for dragged loads such as plows, harrows, canal boats or logs. This style is also used on the leaders in a team of animals pulling a vehicle. The traces attach to a whippletree behind the horse and this then pulls the load (or in larger teams may attach to further whippletrees).

3. Horse collar - Wikipedia

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   A horse collar is a part of a horse harness that is used to distribute the load around a horse's neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough. The collar often supports and pads a pair of curved metal or wooden pieces, called hames , to which the traces of the harness are attached.

4. Breeching (tack) - Wikipedia

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   Harness breeching Breeching on a horse in a light cart Breeching ( / ˈ b r ɪ tʃ ɪ ŋ / "britching") is a strap around the haunches of a draft , pack or riding animal . Both under saddle and in harness , breeching engages when an animal slows down or travels downhill and is used to brake or stabilize a load.

5. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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   Horse collar: A significant improvement of the ancient breast harness was the horse collar. The horse collar was depicted in a Northern Wei (386–534) mural at Dunhuang , China, dated 477–499; the latter artwork does not feature the essential collar cushion behind the cross bar, though, and a later Tang dynasty (618–907) mural, from about ...

6. Driving (horse) - Wikipedia

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   Harness racing Combined driving. Horses can race in harness, pulling a very lightweight one-person cart known as a sulky.At the other end of the spectrum, some draft horses compete in horse pulling competitions, where single or teams of horses and their drivers vie to determine who can pull the most weight for a short distance.

7. Blinkers (horse tack) - Wikipedia

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   Blinkers, also known as blinders, blinds and winkers, are a part of horse harness and tack which limits a horse's field of vision—blocking vision to the sides, the rear, or both. [1]: 56 [2] Blinkers are usually seen in horse driving and in horse racing (both harness and ridden), but rarely in horse riding. [3]: 20

8. Harness saddle - Wikipedia

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   A horse wearing a shaft bow also commonly wears a collar and a saddle. In a troika, only the center horse wears a saddle. The side horses may wear collars, breastplate-and-breeching, or surcingles. [citation needed] An example from 1912 shows a team of three horses in Russia, all wearing collars, the center horse wearing a shaft bow and harness ...

9. Glossary of equestrian terms - Wikipedia

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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 ...