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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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maximum shoulder measurement by the Royal Agricul-tural Society of England; but in response to the ajjpeals of Hackney-breeders the Council of the Royal removed their restrictions upon horsesover this height competing at their shows, with beneficial results to allparties concerned. Of late years a very perceptible increase in the heightboth of Hackneys and Hackney-bred horses has been perceptil)le, and in thesummer of 1895 King Edward (then Prince of Wales) disposed of a pair ofHackney-bred harness horses, which stood just a trifle under 16 hands, fora thousand guineas, a circumstance which, did it stand alone, would affbida practical and unassailable demonstration of the value of Hackney blood,and likewise of the height to which Hackneys may attain. It will pro-bably, however, be some little time before this class of horse will averageanything like 16 hands, especially when it is remembered that for yearsthe Royal Agricultural Society of England was disqualifying animals Pi ATH XVi.
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\ ^ I ^f ^ jiMia -afe-.r-- < uu Qi LU Q V. OJ i_ Q Q ^ . >^ 1) rv a z < s: Cl,2 _sQ H ENGLISH BREEDS 117 exceeding 152 hands, but nevertheless the fact remains that the statureof the Hackney is steadily increasing. Eeverting, however, to the palmy days of this breed of horse, whichmay be taken to have been at the commencement of the nineteenthcentury, at which time the variety was well established and vastly ^Dopularamongst farmers generally, some allusion may be made to the speed andstamina of the Hackney of those days. For instance, the doings of a grand-daughter, by Driver, of old Shales, the fountain-head of many a famousmodern strain of Hackney, is credited with the negotiation of 15 mileswithin the hour carrying 15 stone upon her back. This is smart trottingcertainly, but the old horse himself possessed a record of 17 miles withinthe 60 minutes—an altogether extraordinary performance when the con-ditions under which the feat was performed are conside

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