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 . 1 P)^ fYCLOPEDlA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPT KIK STOrK THOROUGHBRED HORSES. 157 evacuation of England by the Romans, and its conquest by the Saxons,considerable attention was paid to the English breed of horses, and weknow that after the reign of Alfred, running horses were imported fromGermany ; this being the first hi
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 . 1 P)^ fYCLOPEDlA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPT KIK STOrK THOROUGHBRED HORSES. 157 evacuation of England by the Romans, and its conquest by the Saxons,considerable attention was paid to the English breed of horses, and weknow that after the reign of Alfred, running horses were imported fromGermany ; this being the first historical intimation we have of runninghorses in England. It is scarcely to be doubted that this importationproduced a marked effect on the character of the native breed, but here,as before, no historian has thought it worth his while to record the factof either improvement or deterioration. English horses, after this, appear to have been highly prized on thecontinent, so that the German horses which were presented by HughCapet to Athelstan had ])een turned to good account. Tlie English them-selves were, however, anxious to preserve the monopoly of the breed, forin 930, A. D., a law prohibited the exportation of horses. In Athelstansreign many Spanish horses were imported, which shows the desire of theFlnglish, even at that
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