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The Spanish school represented in many principles of his predecessor, although still lec- 



ways the Moors and the traditions they left ommended, were combined with those of the 



behind them ; the simple Arabian bit and stir- Duke of Newcastle. At the end of the seven- 



rups retained their Moorish form. But after a teenth century avc find the king's equerry, 



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while ultra-refinement and artificiality carried 

 the day, and energy, agility, and suppleness 

 were less valued than stateliness and show. 

 The French school attached itself especially 

 to show. Pluvinel, the first to write on 



Gaspard Saunier, exercising the veterinary art 

 at Versailles, and combining it with the other 

 arts of riding and horseshoeing. He also put 

 his knowledge to use, with more or less success, 

 in the establishment of stud farms for the kintc 



Pure-Blooded Arabian Stallions 



equitation, dedicated his book to Louis XIII, 

 who was famous for his admirable seat on horse- 

 back. To Pluvinel succeeded Beaurepaire, 

 who published, in 1665, a book in which the 



and for private individuals. In his works on 

 equitation and other branches he makes men- 

 tion of the royal hunts in the forest of Fontaine- 

 bleau, at which the exiled King James I of 



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