Fig. 12.—How to hold up a fore-leg.
A convenient way for holding up the fore-leg, for “gentling” and other purposes, is that shewn by Fig. 10.
Tying up a fore-leg.—Having “picked up” the foot, we may secure it as follows:
1. By Rarey’s leg strap, which is about 3 ft. long, and is furnished, at one end, with a buckle, below which, a leather “keeper” is placed on both sides (see [Fig. 13]). To apply it, the free end is passed round the pastern, from the outside, through the keeper at the back of the buckle, thus forming a loop. Another turn is taken round the forearm, and a second loop is made by passing the end through the buckle. The strap can now be tightened up as may be required, and the end run through the second keeper. Fig. 14 shews how this can be equally well done with a stirrup leather, with which two or three turns have been taken round the pastern; so as to bring the punched holes sufficiently near
Fig. 13.—Rarey’s leg-strap.