The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . kish warriorsto victory at Poictiers were the posterity of the first horseswhich the Tencteri had acquired from the Gauls, and some ofwhose blood may have been derived from the twenty horsesbrought back from Italy by the Gallic chieftains in 172 have seen that already in the fourth century praised the Friesland horses, and though by the latermedieval period they were not so much esteemed as the 09 0 340 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. horses of Flanders and Germany, they evidently still had greatmerits, since Stradanus, in
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . kish warriorsto victory at Poictiers were the posterity of the first horseswhich the Tencteri had acquired from the Gauls, and some ofwhose blood may have been derived from the twenty horsesbrought back from Italy by the Gallic chieftains in 172 have seen that already in the fourth century praised the Friesland horses, and though by the latermedieval period they were not so much esteemed as the 09 0 340 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. horses of Flanders and Germany, they evidently still had greatmerits, since Stradanus, in the Stable of Don John of Austria,shows one of these animals (here reproduced. Fig. 97), andBlundeville gives a description of this breed: The FrizelandHorse is no verie great Horse, but rather of a mean stature,being therewith strong and well comjmct togither, and hathverie good legs. And Vegetius saith that the Frizeland Horsesbe verie swift in running, and able to maintaine a long indeed I have seene of them myself, that would make a. Fig. 97. The Frieslaml Horse. good cariere and manege verie well, and also do the curvet sotrulie as anie jennet of Spain. Blundeville adds that thedisposition of this horse is so devilish that he requires extremecare in breaking and handling. The pace of this horse is agood comely trot. New conditions of life required a ditFerent animal, and bybreeding the old war-horse was gradually modified into a statelycoach-horse and into an animal suited to mount the new cavalry. Down to the last century the Friesland horse, also known asDutch, was the noblest breed of black horses in Europe, being Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 341 commonly called Hart-dravor, Fast-trotter, and from themwere derived the Norfolk and Russian Trotters. The FrieslandCarabiniers were formerly mounted on them. Indeed down to modern times the Dutch, Hanoverians, andHessians mounted their light cavalry on black horses of alighter type from Holstein and Denmark, whilst
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