What is "girths"

Usage examples of "girths".

Breezy Palm stamping around in the place allotted to the horse that finished fourth, the jockey unbuckling the girths and Orkney scowling.

Turniptop and I had to loop up the girths and go and weigh in, still without knowing what had happened in the saddling box before the race.

We circled round for five minutes, eleven of us, while the assistant starter tightened girths and complained that anyone would think we were in perishing Siberia.

We reached the saddling boxes as the tiny saddle itself went on over the number cloth, elastic girths dangling.