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thin crest well reared ; a wide throstle, a broad breast, deepchested ; his body large, 

 his ribbes round and close, shut up to his hucklebone, a good-filled long buttocke, 

 not very broade, well let down in the gaskins ; his limmes clean, flat, straight, but 

 not very bigge ; his joints short, especially between the pasterne and the hoofe 

 having little haire on his fetlocke, a straight foot, black hollow hoof, not over big." 



That Barrett had the root of the matter in him may be judged from his 

 observations on breeding and the selection of a mare. "Although the Spanish 



French .Ifuntge Horse of the Sewntetnth Century. 



By DC Pane. 



genet, the Irish hobby and the Arabian courser are held both by Master Blundeville 

 and Master Markham to be the chief for pacing and neat action, there is the bastard 

 stallion begotten by them on our English mares, which doth exceed either of them 

 in toughness. The English mares to be of good stature, somewhat large but not 

 very high, a small head, full eye, wide nostril, a pricke ear but somewhat long, a 

 firm thin crest, with a long straight necke, well compact on the cragge at the 

 setting-on of the head, a broad breast, deepchested, a round backe, being barrell- 

 ribbed, and the short ribs shot up somewhat close to the hucklebone, the buttocks 



