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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. On the Arabian and other Eastern horses. The history of the British horse may be divided into three distinct epochs, the first and second of which we have treated of in the preceding chapter. The first epoch consists in the ages of chivalry, when a strong, heavy horse, partaking largely both in shape and qualities, of the Flemish and cart horse breed, was required by the knights in their numerous wars, who not only carried heavy armour themselves, but loaded their chargers with it also. We remember to have seen this description of horse admirably illustrated in a very old Dutch painting, of the drowning of the Egyptian host in the Red Sea. The woodcut given below is taken from this painting, from which it would appear that Mynheer the artist evidently made the cart-horse- 44 HISTORY OF THE looking animal of his own country and day stand as the tnodel for the light Barb and Arabian coursers which no doubt formed the cavalry ofPharoah's host. The second epoch we would assign to the period when the invention of gunpowder, gradually abolishing the use of armour, together with the introduction of racing, caused stud owners to turn their attention to the breeding of a lighter and fleeter animal, more fitted to the demands of the changed times. In the reign of James I this may be said to have been finally effected; and we have given a facsimile of the horse in general use in the reign of Charles I, as represented in the forty-two plates of the Dukeof Newcastle's Treatise on Horsemanship, which we consider forms a fair specimen of the improvement which had already manifested itself in the second epoch. As we purpose treating fully in another place of the thorough bred horse which forms the third and last epoch, according to the theory we have ventured to ...

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780217224031
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0217224032
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Publishing year: 2013
Publisher: General Books LLC

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ISBN/EAN: 9780217224031

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Book author: christie, whyte
Book title: turf

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