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The first thing that springs to mind when we think of horses is work. Though the tractor 

 is becoming more and more predominant there are still parts of the country where horses 

 help man to win his daily bread. Yet it was many centuries before the horse was used as a farm 

 animal. In the Domesday Book the ox is the only draught animal mentioned in connection 

 with the plough; not until the twelfth century was the horse yoked with oxen for that pur- 

 pose. Possibly one reason for the increased use of the horse was the 'yellow plague', which, 

 in the middle ages, devastated domestic animals, particularly cattle. 



