vi THE HORSE IN HISTORY 



In the following pages, therefore, the writer has 

 striven to trace the progress of the horse from 

 very early times down to the present day mainly 

 from the standpoint of the effect its development 

 had upon the advancement of the human race. 

 For this reason though a selected number of 

 the most famous horses that lived in the centuries 

 before Christ, and between the time of Christ 

 and the period of the Norman Conquest, and 

 that have lived within the last nine centuries, 

 have been mentioned, the horses of romance 

 and mythology have for the most part been 

 passed over. 



Every effort has been made to obtain informa- 

 tion that is strictly accurate, a task of no small 

 difficulty owing to the mass of contradictory 

 evidence with which the writer has found himself 

 confronted in the course of his researches. To 

 the best of his ability he has winnowed the 

 actual facts from the mass of fiction that he has 

 come upon in the writings of some of the earlier 

 historians, and to some extent in records, manu- 

 scripts and private letters of more recent times 

 to which he has had access. 



B. J. T. 



Boodle's Club, 1908. 



