Heavy Horses Breeds and Management

Heavy Horses: Breeds and Management

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Excerpt from Heavy Horses: Breeds and Management

Before taking notice of a few illustrious and well-known names that we find within this period, it may be desirable to review some particulars of the breed in the different counties as furnished in Mr. Reynolds’s carefully prepared article. It is noticeable that he draws attention to what of course is an undisputed fact, viz., the admixture of the foreign element in the composition of the Shire. This no doubt is so; in fact we have already pointed out, while referring to Sir Walter Gilbey’s book, some of the periods at which importations of stallions from the Continent of Europe occurred, and we must say it seems rather hard to accuse the Shire horse of impurity because Of the efforts on the part Of our forefathers to increase the standard of size by the introduction of foreign stallions, particularly when we recollect that nearly all breeds of domesticated animals, as we now find them, are more or less the creation of the breeders.

The Shire Horse, The Suffolk Horse, The Clydesdale, 286 Seiten, kartoniert

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Author: Herman Biddell

Reprint from 1894,
Excerpt from Heavy Horses: Breeds and Management

Before taking notice of a few illustrious and well-known names that we find within this period, it may be desirable to review some particulars of the breed in the different counties as furnished in Mr. Reynolds’s carefully prepared article. It is noticeable that he draws attention to what of course is an undisputed fact, viz., the admixture of the foreign element in the composition of the Shire. This no doubt is so; in fact we have already pointed out, while referring to Sir Walter Gilbey’s book, some of the periods at which importations of stallions from the Continent of Europe occurred, and we must say it seems rather hard to accuse the Shire horse of impurity because Of the efforts on the part Of our forefathers to increase the standard of size by the introduction of foreign stallions, particularly when we recollect that nearly all breeds of domesticated animals, as we now find them, are more or less the creation of the breeders.

The Shire Horse, The Suffolk Horse, The Clydesdale, 286 Seiten, kartoniert