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while growing, dried up so as to become virtually 

 naturally-made hay ; and in winter there is so little 

 of it that the Arab or Persian horse never in his life 

 had the meal of one turned into a luxuriant Lincoln- 

 shire pasture ; light feeding and plenty of exercise, is 

 natural to the horse of high caste. How and by 

 what means such animals as our London cart-horses 

 have been produced, is, I believe, unknown ; for that 

 warm climates were the original countries of the 

 horse, is not doubted, and in such the dray-horse is, 

 or at least was, unknown. 



"We have here in England made two important 

 changes in the breed of our horses. It was found 

 that such horses as were used some hundreds of 

 years back, were too heavy for the change that took 

 place in the uses to which we applied them, so we 

 got Persians and Arabs to lighten the breed : this 

 brought out the strong hunter and the stronger 

 coach-horse then in use. In progress of time these 

 were found too slow for their destined purposes. 

 "We again had recourse to the thorough-bred sire, which 

 has produced the very high-bred horse now in use ; 



