It's not a hobble (hopple) hanger (an aid to keep the horse on gait almost always used only with pacers;trotters rarely use them).    From Wordnik.com.  [Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse] Reference

We tie him to a tree, and hopple his fore and hind feet, lest he may struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

Smith led him to the edge of the bog, knelt down, drew aside a branch of witch-hopple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Jewel] Reference

My horse, well trained to such tactics stayed where I had dismounted, without tie or hopple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

The people of the territories are denied the power to form State governments unless they consent to fasten upon them the slave-hopple, the iron wristlet, and the neck-spike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)] Reference

The latter plan is the best, because the animal, side-hoppled, is able to go but little faster than a walk, while the front hopple permits him, after a little practice, to gallop off at considerable speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

In turning out pack animals to graze, it is well either to keep the lariat ropes upon them with the ends trailing upon the ground, or to hopple them, as no corral can be made into which they may be driven in order to catch them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

I made up my mind then an 'there I'd keep ye if I had to hopple ye by the ankle like Tolman's jumpin' steer. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Neighbors] Reference

At couldn't fairly hopple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference

Old Gammer Hipple-hopple hopped out of bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery Rhyme Book] Reference

Zuñi hopple 373.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference