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CHAPTER VII. 



First mention of horses — Thessalian horsemen— Extinction of Arab 

 horses — Gradual development of use of horses — Wild horses of 

 South America and Tartary — Enormous herds of wild horses — 

 Wild horses in Buenos Ayres — The lasso — A grand breaking-in — 

 Lassoing on the open plain- — Gaucho riding-boot — Endurance of 

 Gaucho horse — Wild horses mad with thirst — Tractability of 

 Tartar horses — Horses of Central Africa — Lord Strathnairn's Arab 

 mare — Her death with the Ward hounds — Scarcity of wild Arab 

 horses — The three breeds of Arab horses — Long pedigrees of Arab 

 horses — Arab sold by author to Baron Hastings — Shape of Arab 

 horses — Activity of Arab horses — Arab horse belonging to 

 author — Tractability and sagacity of Arab horses — Test of Arabs 

 of Kochlani breed — Origin of the English thoroughbred horse 

 — Superiority of English thoroughbred horses as compared 

 with Arabs — Match between English horse Recruit and Arab 

 horse Pyramus — Samson and Bay Malton — The Darley Arabian 

 — Flying and Bartlett's Childers and Almanzor — Firetail — Mr. 

 Wilde's performance — Mr. Thornhill's performance — Quibbles — 

 Eclipse— The Godolphin Barb — Original breed of British horses — 

 Infusion of foreign blood by the Romans — King Athelstane — 

 Compensation for horses, a.d. 930 — Howell's Act— Trial allowed 

 to purchasers of horses — Act regarding hired horses — Horses for- 

 bidden to be used for ploughing — Improvements in horse-breeding 

 by William the Conqueror — Introduction of Spanish blood — Arab 

 given to St. Andrews — Smithfield in twelfth century — Stallions 

 purchased by Richard Coeur-de-Lion — Horse armour— Prices of 

 horses, 1135 — Prices of horses, 1155 — Improvements in agri- 

 cultural horses by King John — Lombardy horses purchased by 

 Edward 11. — Improvements in breed by Edward III. — Purchase of 

 Spanish horses by Edward HI. — Running horses, fourteenth 

 century — W'elter weights- — Exportation of horses forbidden in 

 Elizabeth's reign — High price of horses — Horses in reign of 

 Henry VII. — Horse laws passed by Henry VIII. — Sir A. Fitz-. 

 herbert's ' Boke of Husbandry ' — Blunderville, his work on riding — 

 Introduction of racing — The Silver Bell — Rules of racing, James I. 



