The horse : as he was, as he is, and as he ought to be / by James Irvine Lupton.

  • Lupton, J. Irvine (James Irvine)
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The horse : as he was, as he is, and as he ought to be / by James Irvine Lupton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    broocl-mares and youngsters to roam over, and during the severe winters they are as well able to protect their stock from the inclemency of the weather as we are. They have, with few exceptions, descended from the same horse-loving families as we English, who, in the days of the Stuarts, did all in their power to create the fastest galloper. Whilst our brothers on the other side of the Atlantic have succeeded in manufacturing the most celebrated trotter in existence, they like ourselves have been assisted in creat- ing their breeds of horses by English thorough-breds; but they have amalga- mated them with native and cross-bred stock, and at this day think that more general success is to be anticipated “ by sticking to trotting lines, or taking tho- America has manufactured the fastest trotters in the world.