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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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fact that in theHomeric poems of the Trojan war, there is no mention of the trumpetor of cavalry. In Virgil, mounted men, saddles, spurs, and clarions arementioned. In the romance of Sir Bevis, of Southampton, he speaksof races of three miles, for forty pounds of ready golde. Homerknew nothing of horsemen and trumpets in war, while Virgil was famil-iar with them. The author of Sir Bevis, in his day and generationprobably saw races of long distances, and long-distance races generallyprecede short ones. / The excellence of the English race horse of the last 100 years is prob-ably more due to the Barb than to any other one strain, it was in 1121that the first Arabian was imported into England, but the Arabian of thatday was not what he was in the centuries 1400, 1500 and 1600, duringthe time immediately succeeding the overthrow of Charles I. Of Englishracing horses, Eclipse was the most wonderful of all whose perform-ances have come down to us well authenticated THOROUGHBRED HORSES. 163
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164 CYCLOPEDIA OF LHTS STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. Vn. American Thoroughbreds. The thoroughbred hortse of America i.s of course the descendant ofEnglish ancestors. It is probably true that the American thoroughbredis a su))erior animal to the English thoroughbred ; and this opinion iscertainly fortified by the triumphs of American horses in England andFrance, in their greatest races, in the year 1881. A horse transi)ortedfrom one country to another, entirely different in climate, might be par-doned for not performing as well there as he would do at home. Yet,our horses have won laurels in England and Fvance from the very bestthoroughbreds there, and in their most exacting races. In the S6uth, there has always been a passion for the spoils of thefield, and liiuch attention has been devoted to the breeding of horses ofspeed and bottom. Interest in fine horses is growing in tlie North fromyear to year, but while we have some high-caste breeding studs in theNorth, the South, and espe

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