HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE OLD ENGLISH ROAD HORSE. 



Is a strong, vigorous, and active kind, capable 

 of enduring great hardship ; its stature rather low, 

 seldom exceeding fifteen hands; the body round 

 and compact, its limbs strong, and its head thick. 



Although this breed has of late years been 

 neglected, and almost totally superseded by Horses 

 of another kind, more nearly related to the Race 

 Horse, where the fashion of figure seems to have 

 been preferred to utility, we cannot help congratu- 

 lating our associated countrymen* on their spirited 

 exertions towards public improvement, in which 

 nothing of excellency in the various kinds of 

 domestic animals is suffered to escape their vigi- 

 lance, and this kind is again likely to be brought 

 into notice. A mare of this breed, in the posses- 

 sion of Arthur Mowbray, Esq., of Sherburn, ap- 

 pears to us to possess all the valuable properties 

 attributed to the old Road Horse. 



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* Agricultural societies 

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