Newmarket Head Collar: Stable Halter With Squared Stays, Noseband, Cheeks and Throat Lash (Hasluck, Saddlery, 1904)

"Head collars, also called headstalls and stable collars, are made in various ways, and one of the most useful styles will be described in this chapter."

Cut two short straps 1 ft by 1-1/4 in and turn them in to 5 in long, leaving 1 in or a little more for overlap. Shave the ends and prick them eight to the inch. Put one square in the centre between them and one in each end, with the stops on the same side. Lay a strip of leather along the centre of each to raise the stay, then stitch with beeswaxed three-cord hemp thread, with a strong cross-stitch at the end of each line.

Cut the noseband 1 ft 3 in long when turned down. Prepare it and put one end, forming a chape, in each of the end squares of the short stays. Stitch two rows along the edges of the turn-down and trim the ends neatly.

Cut a pair of cheeks 1-1/4 in by 8 in when bent in both ends. Prepare one end of each for a buckle and shave the points of the other turn-down. Put a runner on each cheek and a loop and the 1-1/4 in roller buckle on one end, then stitch the opposite ends to the two outer squares.

Cut the short upward stay and stitch it behind in the centre square. Its length when doubled is about 4-1/2 in, with an opening left at the top for the throat lash to run through.

Make the forehead band like the snaffle bridle front. Cut the top strap 2 ft by 1-1/4 in and, when finished, punch about four holes on both sides. Make the throat lash 3 ft 6 in by 3/4 in, with the 3/4 in roller buckle, a loop and a runner, and about nine holes.

Put the forehead band on the head strap and buckle it on both sides in the cheeks. Run the throat lash from the near side through the opening in the upward stay and under the head strap, then through the opening in the forehead band on each side, and bring the point down to the buckle on the near side. If the collar has only one cheek, on the near side, make the strap on the other side 2 ft 9 in long.

From **Saddlery**, edited by Paul N. Hasluck, David McKay, 1904 (archive.org saddlery00hasl), chapter VIII, "Head Collars", the Newmarket head collar, Fig. 23; every fraction was read on the scan. His list names one 1-1/4 in roller buckle and one 3/4 in buckle; the throat lash takes a roller buckle of its own width, and fitting the larger one to the cheek is our reading. Not made here: the Albert and Queen's pattern collars and the head collar reins. The metric figures are ours.