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The Book of the Horse. 



on one side ; in a word, an exact reproduction of the horses and pupils of the Marquis of 

 Newcastle. After saluting the Emperor, they proceeded to execute ballotades, caprioles,* 

 and all the tricks delineated in the elaborate copper plates of Abraham Diepenbeke. 



I dwell upon this curious and costly publication.t because it is so extraordinary that 

 such an expense should have been incurred for engravings of horses, in none of which, out of 

 more than forty plates, does one blood-horse, or even moderately well-bred horse, appear. 



The author of "The Gentleman's Jockey," the ninth edition of which is dated 1704, "with 

 additions," undertakes to explain how a horse may be prepared "for a running course in two 



ITALIAN HORSK, 1688. 



months." He says of the English horse that he " may be known by his strong knitting 

 together ; " as the Neapolitan by his hooked nose, and the Barbary by his fine head. Cox, 

 writing in l686 his " Gentleman's Recreations," gives exactly the same list of horses as the 

 Duke of Newcastle, adding particular directions for obtaining and importing Spanish, Arab, 

 Barbary, and Turkish horses. 



William III. was passionately fond of horses and hunting. The condition of his stud formed 

 the subject of many letters to his favourite, Bentinck. That he liked Italian horses we learn 



• In a IwUotade the horse jumps off the groimd, bcmliny both knees and houghs, and showing his hind shoes without UielvUig 

 out. In the capriole the horse does the same, and kicks out with both liind legs. 



t I have only been able to fnid three editions— the fira, in French, which the title page calls a translation from English, 

 published at Antwerp during the I'rotcctor de, in 165S ; the second, in English, in London, in 1667, after the Restoration ; and the 

 third, a reprint, in 1743 but .ill w illi llic same copper-plate engravings, with lilies and dcscriiHion^ in French. 



