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fresh and cheerful a manner as when he first began," being no doubt much 

 encouraged by winning the wagers which must have depended on so good a per- 

 formance. In 1619 Bernard Calvert of Andover is said to have ridden from South- 

 wark to Dover, sailed across the Channel to Calais and back, and ridden home 

 again to St. George's Church, in seventeen hours. He probably made a fair crossing 

 with a favourable wind, as it was the month of July ; but again, there is no record of 

 the number of horses he used, and I have only quoted these instances to show that 

 though men only had their horses to depend upon, they could make very good 



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travelling, when pressed, and were able to rely upon the good qualities c-f their 

 animal. Such facts as these are also worth remembering in any estimate of that 

 native British stock which existed here before the arrival of the great Eastern sires in 

 the seventeenth century began that long and baffling process which has resulted 

 in what we call the " thoroughbred." I have by no means that distinct aversion 

 to this word which was so roundly displayed in Captain Upton's interesting 

 publication of some thirty years ago, for it seems as convenient to recognise the 

 word now generally applied to the ideal every breeder aims at as it is to accept the 



