CHAPTER XXII.

BITS AND BITTING HARNESS.

Brutal Devices—Popular Styles—Snaffle—Dexter—Hanoverian— Half Cheek Trotting Snaffle—Metals used—Steel not desirable —Unreliability of Malleable Iron—System of numbering—How designated—Illustrations—Bitting Harness—Wooden Jockey, illustrated—Patent Jockey, illustrated 281