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Gladintcur, ;uul their few companions, were practically of the same lineage as the 

 horses against which they ran. 



In the first chapter I have already given a few types of Italian horses of the end 

 of the fifteenth century. The beasts in Finiguerra's Florentine Pictures of 1460 are 

 clearly the "great horse" of pageantry and shows, which may have appealed to the 

 tastes of Henry VIII., but did not do as much good to Knglish racing stock as the 

 smaller animal represented (p. 7), in da Vinci's sketch. The " Kquus (lermamis," 

 drawn by Stradanus, in the sixteenth century (see page 10), was probably tin: result of 

 a mixture of the two strains which are represented by the animal ridden by the 



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Turkish horseman, drawn in 1480, by the unknown Master of the Housebook (some- 

 times called the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet), and by the native German stock 

 depicted in the famous " Small White Horse," etched by Albert Diirer. The 

 continent also largely profited by England's losses up to 1500, and when we had to 

 recruit our impoverished studs again, it was from foreign horses of the kind I have 

 illustrated that the fresh blood came. 



By 1494 the evils of unlimited sale had been recognised and checked by a severe 

 and carefully-worded statute of Henry VII. forbidding exportations except for the 

 owner's personal use, and ordering a forced sale at seven shillings if that price was 



