36 THE HORSE. 



by the crusaders had most likely de- 

 rectly descended from the stock with 

 which Mahomet and his follo^vers had 

 waged war, and this, taken into conside- 

 ration with other facts soon to be ex- 

 posed, proves that it was from the 

 Quality in all Eastern horse England originally derived 



of British the quality now to be noticed through- 

 horses 

 obtained from out the wliolc range of her equine 



Eastern 



horses. breeds. 



For the tournament, the light Arab 

 lookmg horses imported by the crusaders 

 would have been useless. For this pas- 

 time heavy horses were imported, and it 

 was from intermixture between these two 

 types that quality was obtained and great 

 size conserved. Upon such steeds the 

 warriors of old faced their enemies in the 

 battlefield and on the titlting ground 



