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tributed over a larger breeding area, which 

 therefore furnished him with a less strictly 

 local name. Arthur Young, it will also be 

 observed, describes the breed as the " Large 

 Black Old English Horse," a name which, as 

 we have seen, had been in current use since 

 at least the time of Oliver Cromwell. The 

 Eastern counties breed was known and 

 described as the Black Lincolnshire Horse. 

 Black and grey, as Mr. Reynolds points out, 

 were held to indicate purity of breeding. 



We have now reached a period when 

 painters of animal pictures were sometimes 

 commissioned to execute portraits of fine 

 examples of horses, cattle and sheep. The 

 engraving which faces this page is from 

 a picture by Mr. Woodward of a Norfolk 

 Cart Horse called Dodman (East Anglian 

 for '' Snail "), of whose pedigree unfortunately 

 no particulars exist, but which was foaled in 

 the year 1780. This horse was the property 

 of an ancestor of Anthony Hamond, Esq., 

 and the portrait is preserved at his family 

 seat in the parish of Westacre near Brandon. 

 The long hair-lock hanging from the knee 

 arrests the eye ; this appendage, like a 

 moustache on the upper lip and a hair lock 

 projecting from the back of the hock, is 

 regarded as the distinguishing mark of a 



