File:The horse and the hound - their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing (1842) (14596160927).jpg

Identifier: horsehoundtheirv00nimr (find matches)
Title: The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Nimrod, 1778-1843
Subjects: Horses Hounds Horsemanship
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
EEDING WHAT CONSTITUTES A THOROUGH-BRED HORSE ? REARING OF YOUNG RACING STOCK IM-PORTANCE OF WARMTH AND DRY FOOD FORM ACTION WIND TEMPER SPEED EXPENSES OF A BREEDING RACING STUD VALUE OF STAKES AND PRIZES COLOUR OF THE THOROUGH-BRED HORSE THE HALF-BRED RACER WETHERBys STUD-BOOK. Although we may safely pronounce that thenative-breed of English horses, however esteemedfor other purposes, could not jrice^ in the presentacceptation of that word, yet it is equally obviousthat they formed the parent stock of the renownedEnglish racer. The first step to improve it by across with eastern blood, appears to have beentaken by James the First, who gave the enormoussum (in those days) of £500 for an Arab stallion,which, however, the Duke of Newcastle, in his workon Horsemanship, (great authority at that time.)wrote down, on account, chiefly, of his compara-tively diminutive size. At the Restoration, how-ever, there appears to have been a tolerably goodbreed of horses in Enaland, which Charles the
Text Appearing After Image:
EASTERN BLOOD. 9 Second improved by an importation of Barbs andTurks, whose blood was engrafted on the originalstock, already very considerably ameliorated by theservices of a stallion called Places White Turk,imported by Oliver CromwelPs Master of the Horse,who bore that name; and afterwards by those ofthe Helmsley Turk, followed by Fairfaxs MoroccoBarb. The change was at this time so visible, thatthe Lord Harleigh of that day expressed his fearslest it mioht be carried to such an extreme as toextirpate the strong and useful horse, which, per-haps, the majority of his countrymen were wellsatisfied with before. In the latter end of QueenAnnes reign, however, the first great trump turnedup, to secure future success. This was a stallion,called Barleys Arabian, purchased in the Levant,by a Yorkshire merchant of that name, althoughwithout any real attestation of his pedigree, orcountry. The prejudice against Arabians, and othereastern horses, the efiect of the Duke of Newcastlesanathema a

Note About Images