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strong and move best at a walk. They have been developed 

 for power. Driving horses are built for speed and style, are 

 quicker, and are characterized by long, even strides in the 

 run and by great powers of endurance. 



Thoroughbreds. Students of history will recall the great 

 Crusades in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Eng- 

 land, France, and Germany sent warriors to rescue the Holy 

 Land from the Saracens. They were strong men mounted 

 on large horses of great endurance, but the warriors were 

 surprised to find the Saracens mounted on splendid horses 

 more beautiful than any they had ever seen, the agile Ara- 

 bian horse, bred for a thousand years for speed and endur- 

 ance. The Englishmen took some of these beautiful Arabian 

 horses back home with them, and, by breeding them with 

 the best of the old English horses, developed the Thorough- 

 breds. Barley Arabia, Gadolphus Arabian, and Byrley Turk 

 are three Archian stallions that figure in the development of 

 the Thoroughbred. They were used in tournaments or mock 

 battles, in fox hunting, and also in horse racing. Only the 

 pedigreed horses .could enter the races, and hence they became 

 known as Thoroughbreds. Thoroughbred is the proper name 

 for the English running horse, the oldest established breed 

 in the world, and this horse became the foundation for all 

 American trotters and saddle horses. 



Draft horses. The Arabian horses which the Frenchmen 

 took back from the Crusades were bred with the common 

 farm horses of France, and the modern Percheron is the 

 result. Though as heavy as any other draft horse, he has 

 good action inherited from the early Arabian stock. The 



