. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. ATIIELSTAN 8 IMPORTATIONS. 77 period afterwards, in great rec[uest iu various parts of tlie llonuiii ; I regret tliat, owing to tlie omission of giving authority, I have been unable to verify the hitter statement; I liave failed to discover any allusion to the facts stated, in the writings of Cajsar himself; nor can I recall to mind any mention of British horses, in any of the classical authorities, whether in prose or p
. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. ATIIELSTAN 8 IMPORTATIONS. 77 period afterwards, in great rec[uest iu various parts of tlie llonuiii ; I regret tliat, owing to tlie omission of giving authority, I have been unable to verify the hitter statement; I liave failed to discover any allusion to the facts stated, in the writings of Cajsar himself; nor can I recall to mind any mention of British horses, in any of the classical authorities, whether in prose or poetry; nevertheless, I presume, from the general care and truthfulness of this al)lo writer, that there is no doubt as to the accuracy of his assertion. " During the occupation of England by the Romans, the British horse was crossed to a considerable extent by the Ro- man horse"—continues the author in the volume first quoted ; for which I would myself, for reasons above stated^ ])refer to sub- stitute J)ij the fore'ujn horses of tha Roman mercenarij or allied cavalry—" and yet, strange to say, no opinion is given by any historian, Roman or British, as to the effect of this. After the evacuation of England by tlio Romans and its connuest by the Saxons, considerable attention was paid to the English breed of horses, and we know that after the reign of Alfred, running horses were imported from Germany ;* this being the first his- torical intimation we have of running horses in England. It is scarcely to be doubted that this importation produced a marked eft'ect on the character of the native breed, but here, as before, no historian has thought it worth his while to record the fact of either improvement or deterioration. "English horses, after this, appear to have been highly prized on the continent, so that the German horses which were presented by Hugh Capet to Athelstan had been turned to good account. The English themselves were, however, anxious to * A
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