martingal

How will a horse react if they have a martingal on for the first time?

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Tom, bestriding a tall powerful brown mare, showing a monstrous deal of blood combined with no slight bone -- equipped with a cavalry bridle, and strange to say, without the universal martingal; he was rigged just as usual, with the exception of a broad-brimmed hat in place of his fur cap, and grasped in his right hand a heavy smooth-bored rifle, while with the left he wheeled his mare, with a degree of active skill, which

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