262 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



corresponding situations of the present day has probably 

 become thus* modified from the admixture of extrinsic blood, 

 from local influences, from altered methods in the system of 

 rearing and managing young stock, or from a combination 

 of two or all these causes. 



It is perhaps worthy of observation that there were, and 

 still remain, some specimens of three apparently distinct 

 types of draft horses exemplified by differences in the local 

 distribution of long hair: 



1st. Horses having the upper lip garnished with a long, 

 thick mustache, considered at one time a distinguishing 

 characteristic of the Lincolnshire horse. The color of these 

 appendages is always black, white, or a mixture of the two, 

 and invariably corresponds with the hue of the skin from 

 which they spring. 



2d. Horses having the lips, muzzle and eyelids destitute of 

 hair. The skin in these situations, being either entirely bald 

 or covered with exceedingly fine down, is almost invariably 

 flesh-colored, sometimes marked with small dark spots and 

 blotches. Specimens of this type may possibly have origi- 

 nated the appellations "bald horse" and "balled-faced horse." 



3d. Horses having a long tuft of hair growing from the 

 front of each knee, and rarer examples having also a similar 

 growth (quite distinct from the ordinary hair of the back of 

 the cannons) from the hind part of the hock, just below its 

 point. Animals of this type are now seldom seen. In my 

 experience they are more frequently met with in Wales than 

 in the English shires, though no reason can be assigned why 

 that is so. It is found that these peculiar hirsute growths 

 invariably accompany a luxuriant development of long hair 

 in its ordinary situations, and generally a more than ordi- 

 nary strength of bone below the knees and hocks. Sex does 

 not appear to exert any influence in determining the special 

 characteristics of any of the three types, stallions, mares 

 and geldings being equally prone to inherit these peculiar- 

 ities from progenitors similarly possessed. 



These horses have long been extensively bred 

 in Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, 



