The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . heavy to serve as coach-horses. Althoughwell-bred, they are big and heavy and are used more fordraught than for saddle. The old Hanoverian horse may besaid to have disappeared since 1746. Near Osnabruck is the stud of Drenthe horses, whichoriginally came from Drenthe in Holland. They are blackand they supply London with funeral horses*. 1 Hayes, op. cit. p. 517. ^ Cuyer and Alix, op. cit. p. 624. 3 Hayes, op. cit. p. 513. * Hayes, op. cit. pp. 514-5. in] AND HISTORIC TIMES 343 The Mecklenburg horses formerly comprised a type forcarriages of
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . heavy to serve as coach-horses. Althoughwell-bred, they are big and heavy and are used more fordraught than for saddle. The old Hanoverian horse may besaid to have disappeared since 1746. Near Osnabruck is the stud of Drenthe horses, whichoriginally came from Drenthe in Holland. They are blackand they supply London with funeral horses*. 1 Hayes, op. cit. p. 517. ^ Cuyer and Alix, op. cit. p. 624. 3 Hayes, op. cit. p. 513. * Hayes, op. cit. pp. 514-5. in] AND HISTORIC TIMES 343 The Mecklenburg horses formerly comprised a type forcarriages of luxury, a type for the saddle, and a common type,but the latter has now disappeared. The best class of theold Mecklenburg were trotters, but the old typo has been somodified by English blood as to approach the latter the present time almost all the superior horses bred inMecklenburg are sold as horses imported from England ^ The principal centre of production of the Danish horses isthe border of Oldenburg. The Oldenburg horses have many. Fig. 99. The East Prussian Horse. grave defects—heavy heads, weak backs, bad ribs, long legscovered with hair in the lower parts, flat feet, brittle hoofs,and want of endurance. They make carriage horses, very fewbeing fit for the saddle, but to-day they are really farmershorses^. In the l7th and 18th centuries the old Danish horses (Fig,98), which though sturdy were somewhat small, were muchmodified and increased in size by the introduction of Spanish, ^ Hayes, op. cit. p. 516. 2 Hayes, op. cit. p. 517. 344 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. Neapolitan, Turkish, English, and Dutch blood, and the superiorDanish horses thus produced had a very high reputation\ In certain coast districts are found small ponies, which aregenerally of a grey colour, and resemble Iceland ponies. Theseanimals, which live entirely in the open and in a semi-wildstate, are probably in large part descended from the fallow-dunand white horses of the age of Beoivu
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