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The Spanish school represented in many principles of his predecessor, although still rec- 



ways the Moors and the traditions they left ommended, were combined with those of the 



behind them ; the simple Arabian bit and stir- Duke of Newcastle. At the end of the seven- 



rups retained their Moorish form. But after a teenth century we find the king's equerry, 



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while ultra-refinement and artificiality carried Gaspard Saunier, exercising the veterinary art 



the day, and energy, agility, and suppleness at Versailles, and combining it with the other 



were less valued than stateliness and show. arts of riding and horseshoeing. He also put 



The French school attached itself especially his knowledge to use, with more or less success, 



to show. Pluvinel, the first to write on in the establishment of stud farms for the king 



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equitation, dedicated his book to Louis XIII, 

 who was famous for his admirable seat on horse- 

 back. To Pluvinel succeeded Beaurepaire, 

 who published, in 1665, a book in which the 



and for private individuals. In his works on 

 equitation and other branches he makes men- 

 tion of the royal hunts in the forest of Fontaine- 

 bleau, at which the e.xiled King James I of 



