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paid to these horses than in the Eastern 

 counties. It is thought that Norfolk, Suf- 

 folk and Yorkshire owe something of the 

 merit of their trotting horses to early im- 

 portations of Norwegian stock by the Danes. 



Mr. H. F. Euren in the able Introduc- 

 tion he contributed to volume i. of the 

 Hackney Horse Society's Stud Book, says 

 " the fact that the trotting horse was in 

 the last century [i 701 -1800] found most 

 plentifully in those districts of the kingdom 

 where Danish settlers had left indelible 

 marks of occupation and habitation, war- 

 rants the assumption that to Norse horse 

 stock they in great measure owe their char- 

 acteristic action." 



However this may be, the fact remains 

 that the past history of the Norfolk and 

 Yorkshire breeds is full of passages reflect- 

 ing their merits. Mr. H. R. Phillips, in 

 his evidence before the Lords' Committee 

 on Horses in 1873, says: "The Hackney 

 is a class of itself. We date them back 

 from Mr. Theobald's 'Old Champion,' 

 which cost 1,000 guineas." This horse, 

 registered under the name of his breeder 

 as " Champion, Hewison's," was foaled in 

 1836; he was by Bond's Norfolk Phenome- 

 non, and is described as a bay with black 

 legs, standing 15-3. 



