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manifest in the history of Scottish horse-breeding, selecting 

 here and rejecting there, bringing now one race, then an- 

 other from across the seas to " mend the breed," till inch 

 after inch up to a cubit is added to the stature, and the first 

 clear step made by the incoming of the Norse pony is 

 capped by the importation of the great black Flemish 

 stallion of Lochlyoch which about 1750 founded the race of 

 Clydesdales. 



