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breed of horses which could not only trot, 

 but gallop ; and the curious team -races this 

 writer describes, proves that that Norfolk 

 breed of the seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries was sure-footed as well as active. 

 The team consisted of five horses which 

 were harnessed to an empty waggon : thus 

 Marshall speaks as an eye-witness : — 



"A team following another upon a common broke 

 into a gallop, and, unmindful of the ruts, hollow 

 cavities and rugged ways, contended strenuously for 

 the lead, while the foremost team strove as eagerly 

 to keep it. Both were going at full gallop, as fast 

 indeed as horses in harness could go for a consider- 

 able distance, the drivers standing upright in their 

 respective waggons." 



Laurence, in his Treatise on the Horse, 

 says of the Suffolk and Norfolk horses : — 



" I have seen a cart horse of this description which, 

 bating a little coarseness of the head, was perhaps 

 as fit to get hacks and hunters from proper mares 

 as the best bred horse alive. I have also heard of a 

 Norfolk farmer, who about fifty years ago [i.e., 1750] 

 [or thereabout] , had a peculiar sort which he styled 

 his Brazil breed. This blade of a farmer it seems 

 would unharness one of his plough horses, ride him 

 to a neighbouring fair, and after winning with him a 

 leather plate, ride him home again in triumph to his 

 wife." 



There can be no doubt but that the Nor- 

 folk Hackney traces his descent on the 

 dam's side to this breed ; his pedigree on 

 the male side has already been described. 



