(a) Persons riding or driving horse-drawn vehicles, or drawing handcarts, shall observe rules of reasonable precaution, especially when turning corners, crossing lines of traffic, passing through gates or other road-ways leading from yards, or similar places. No person shall race horses upon public streets, roads and places. Within the vicinity of the towns, no person shall drive a horse faster than at an even trot, or at a speed easily commanded.
(b) Riders and drivers shall in good time warn persons who are in their way, but shall make way for vehicles of the fire service. When passing the latter vehicles, drivers shall stop, or proceed only at a walking pace.
(c) Any animal, except oxen, when ridden, or driven, upon public highways or places, shall be bridled with a bit. Wagons drawn by two or more yokes of oxen, when driven on public streets, roads or places, shall have a driver with the foremost yoke or yokes.