. Blooded horses of colonial days : classic horse matches in America before the Revolution. Horse racing; Horse racing; Horses; Horses. His Imperial Majesty, The Horse WYNKYN DE WORDE, printer at London, and Caxton's successor in 1491, enumerates fifteen points of a good horse, and in quaint fashion describes them thus: "A good horse sholde have three propyrtees of a man, three of a woman, three of a foxe, three of a haare, and three of an asse. Of a man, bolde, prowde and hardye. Of a woman, faire- breasted, faire of heere and easy to move. Of a foxe, a faire taylle, short eers, with a g
. Blooded horses of colonial days : classic horse matches in America before the Revolution. Horse racing; Horse racing; Horses; Horses. His Imperial Majesty, The Horse WYNKYN DE WORDE, printer at London, and Caxton's successor in 1491, enumerates fifteen points of a good horse, and in quaint fashion describes them thus: "A good horse sholde have three propyrtees of a man, three of a woman, three of a foxe, three of a haare, and three of an asse. Of a man, bolde, prowde and hardye. Of a woman, faire- breasted, faire of heere and easy to move. Of a foxe, a faire taylle, short eers, with a good trotte. Of a haare, a grate eye, a dry head, and well rennynge. Of an asse, a bygge chynn, a fiat legge and a good hoof". His physical "properties" (according to Wynkyn's apparently whimsical classification) aside, the horse is, next to our humble servitor the dog, the most faithful of domestic animals; certainly he has been, from time immemorial, the most useful. Among the Greeks, he was highly regarded, and the names of individuals derived from. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Culver, Francis Barnum, b. 1868. Baltimore : Published by the author
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