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CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



" soft " in constitution, they gradually fell into disfavour. 

 The Ardenne horse (p. 500) belongs to Belgium, as well as 

 to France. 



Danish Horses.— We read in de Simonoff and de 

 Moerder's Races Chevalines, that during the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries, Danish horses held a very high 



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[0. Rkid, Wishaw. 



Fig. 527. — Iceland pony. 



reputation, and were exported to all the countries of 

 Europe. The somewhat small though sturdy native horses 

 of Denmark became larger by the introduction of Spanish, 

 Neapolitan, Turkish, English and Dutch blood. The 

 most important of all the Danish studs was that which 

 was founded at Frederiksborg, near Copenhagen, in 1562. 

 It flourished up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, 

 when it began to decline, and was shut in 1862. Horse- 

 breeding in Denmark followed more or less the same 



