CHAPTER II 



Richard II.'s horse, Roan Barbary— Thoroughbred English 

 horses characteristic of the nation— Chaucer ; Cambuscan's wooden 

 horse— Don Quixote's Aligero Clavileno— Horse race between 

 the Prince of Wales and Lord Arundel— The Chevalier Bayard ; 

 his horse, Carman — The Earl of Warwick's horse, Black Saladin 

 — Joan of Arc — King Richard's horse, White Surrey — Charles 

 VIII. of France's horse, Savoy— Dame Julyana Berners— Wolsey's 

 horsemanship — Queen Elizabeth's stud 



'XXf HEN the Pale was troubled by an 

 * * eruption of the O'Byrnes and O'Moores 

 in 1372" — Professor Ridgeway writes in his 

 interesting and instructive work, "The Origin 

 and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse" — 

 4 'who burned the priory of Athy, John Colton, 

 the first Master of Gonville Hall (now Gonville 

 and Caius College) and successively Dean of St 

 Patrick's, Chancellor of Ireland, and Archbishop 

 of Armagh, raised a force of twenty-six knights 

 and a large body of men-at-arms and fell upon 

 the Irish and defeated them with great slaughter." 

 Upon referring to the records of this incident, 

 to be found in several of our histories, it becomes 

 evident that in the Pale at that time there must 

 have been many horses of the stamp that to-day 

 we speak of as the " great " horse. 



The insurrection alluded to so lightly as "an 

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