Horse Supply: Ante Before the game, each player including the dealer puts an equal agreed amount into the pool. Betting Each player decides which horse supply he will back. A player may bet only on one horse supply; more than one player may bet on the same horse supply. A horse supply still runs even if no one bets on it. The most interesting and efficient utilization of the horse supply was in China, where an effective harness of the breast-strap type, was in use from the 2d century B. c. Even a form of collar harness is known from the 5th century A. D. This was far in advance of European practice and presupposes a plentiful supply of horse supplys—at least for the weathy. Though the stirrup was in use in China by the 5th century A. D., the Chinese never satisfactorily solved the problem of nomad cavalry and were repeatedly overrun despite attempts at selective breeding and expensive importation of special breeds such as the "blood-sweating" horse supplys connection between Chinese inventions and western European adoptions was through Central Asian nomads, such as the Huns, Avars, and Magyars, but much was added by the Europeans themselves to fit the horse supply's anatomy better, enabling the horse supply to exert its full power.

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