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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
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ng the lastten centuries, thathasledto the selection of the bestbreeds and given an impetus during the past 100 years to really scientificbreeding. And it is to these latter causes that we owe all that is of val-ue in any of the improved breeds of horses existing to-day, not even ex-cepting our draft horses. Let us look at the history of the bloodedhorse of England, and view its gradual rise and progress, even from be-yond the Christian era. n. Herberts History of the English Horse. Henry William Herbert, in his admirable and voluminous work on theHorse of America, now unfortunately out of print, has traced the Eng-lish horse so carefully, and at the same time so concisely, that one cannotdo better than extract therefrom matter that otherwise the mass of thereaders of to-day could not come at. He says, upon the authority ofYouatt: That horses were introduced into Britain long before theChristian era, we have abundant evidence, and that the inhabitants h&d 152 THOTJOUGHBRED HORSES.
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154 CTCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. acquired great exiDcrieiice in their use is equally certain. In the ancientBritish language Rhediad is the word for a race—rheder, to run—andrhedecfa^ a race. All these spring from the Gaulish rheda, a chariot.Here, then, is adirect evidence that horses were introduced from Gaul,and that chariot-races were established at a very early period. This evidence says Mr. Herbert is not to my mind direct or con-clusive, as to the fact of the introduction of the horse from Gaul ; al-though it is so, as to the antiquity of chariot-racing in both countries,and to the non-Roman descent or introduction of the British or Gaulishanimal. As the blood, the religion and the language of the Britons werecognate, if not identical, with those of some, at least, of the Gallic tribes,it is no more certain that the Gallic Rheda is the theme of the Britishrheder, than that it is derived therefrom. It does, however, in a greatdegree prove that the Gall

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