. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. ExMOOR AXD Cheviots. 217 being par excellence the pony fair of the West of England. Later on a Uttle more breaking was bestowed on the ponies, and for several years the sale lots were sent by rail to Reading to meet the buyers. But the Cheviot ewe, offering a lamb and fleece for sale every summer, found its way to the Exmoor pastures, and ente
. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. ExMOOR AXD Cheviots. 217 being par excellence the pony fair of the West of England. Later on a Uttle more breaking was bestowed on the ponies, and for several years the sale lots were sent by rail to Reading to meet the buyers. But the Cheviot ewe, offering a lamb and fleece for sale every summer, found its way to the Exmoor pastures, and entered into competition with the pony, which required three or four winters before he came to the hammer. The black cattle have given way to the Cheviots, and the ponies are reduced to a decreasing herd of about forty head, which, instead of finding themselves as of yore, masters of the position, eke out a grudged existence among increasing thousands of Scotch sheep tended by Border shepherds. In i860* the tenant of an Exmoor farm tried to breed Galloways between 13 hands 2 inches. and 14 hands. With this view he employed as a sire a son of Old Port, the diminutive progeny of Sir Hercules and Beeswing, and afterwards the celebrated pony sire Bobby, who was descended through two degrees on his dam's side from Borack, an Arab of celebrity on the Madras racecourse, the sire of some of the best ponies sold at the sales of Mr. Mihvard of Thurgarton Priory. But the experiment was not a success, for the foals required to be wintered in paddocks and fed with hay as two-year-olds, and, being necessarily reared on the improved lands, cost as much to breed as would have produced larger and more valuable animals. The true original Exmoor ponies, which were foaled and fed on the moor without any other food than they could pick up in winter on the moors after the Exmoor sheep had been removed to their winter quarters in the surrounding parishes, and which in hard winters sometimes perished of s
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