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2. Breastplate (tack) - Wikipedia

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   Western style breastcollar being used on a bulldogging horse Breast collar on a harness horse. A breastplate (also referred to as a breastcollar, breaststrap or breastgirth) is a piece of tack (equipment) used on horses. Its purpose is to keep a saddle from sliding back.

3. Horse harness - Wikipedia

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   A collar is the part which a horse pushes against with its shoulders and chest. The two main designs are the breast collar harness and the full collar harness. A horse collar (or full collar) is a padded loop fitting closely around the horse's neck and resting on its shoulders. Must be correctly sized for each individual horse.

4. Horse collar - Wikipedia

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   Earliest depiction of a horse collar, c. 477–499, Northern Wei Zhang Yichao's victory procession, showing horse collars for carriage pulling, c. 851 After the breastcollar harness, the next and final evolutionary stage was the collar harness.

5. Horse tack - Wikipedia

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   A breaststrap harness has a wide leather strap going horizontally across the horses' breast, attached to the traces and then to the load. This is used only for lighter loads. A collar and hames harness has a collar around the horses' neck with wood or metal hames in the collar. The traces attach from the hames to the load.

6. Breeching (tack) - Wikipedia

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   Breeching on wheelers, attached to their collars, which are attached in turn to the vehicle pole. When a horse, mule, or other animal is in harness, harness breeching (also known as full breeching) helps the animal to slow or control the forward movement of a vehicle. Animal-drawn vehicles have either a pair of shafts or a single pole ...

7. Martingale (tack) - Wikipedia

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   Additionally, if a horse happens to trip on landing after a fence, the rider can loosen the reins and the horse will have full use of its head and neck. Because of this safety factor, the running martingale is the only style of martingale permitted for use in eventing competitions and horse racing .