Identifier: horseitsselect00bart (find matches)
Title: The horse: its selection and purchase : together with the law of warranty, sale, &c.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Barton, Frank Townend Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horses Horse trading CHR 1907 PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, limited
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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lled Denmark,foaled in 1862 ; and from Denmark came the famousDanegelt, foaled in 1879, and sold to Sir WalterGilbey for many thousands, and a cheap horse hewas at the price. Both Danegelt and Denmark were bred by thelate Mr. Bourdass, veterinary surgeon, of Hun-manby, Yorkshire. From the foregoing it will be seen that the Hackney owes most of its qualities to the Arabsire; but, through a long period of careful selection,of the best class of light horses, many improvementsin the breed have been brought about. As ageneral utility horse, the Hackney has nosuperior ; although the axiom that a hack is ahorse to ride, but a Hackney is a horse you shouldnot ride, often does apply, it is hardly applicableto the present type of Hackney ; in fact, many ofthese horses make the best hacks which one couldpossibly obtain. Most of the present day Hack-neys are much bigger horses than the Norfolk trotterwas, the average height for the latter being aboutfifteen hands, or a trifle under this; but many
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THE HACKNEY OR HARNESS HORSE. 33 Hackneys are over sixteen hands. The terms Hackney pony, and cob, seem to be almostsufficiently explanatory, though the former maybe said to comprise Hackneys under fourteenhands, and the latter between fourteen-two andfifteen hands. Very high prices are commonlypaid for typical Hackneys, and at no time in thehistory of the breed has the Hackney pony beenmore popular than it is at the present. There isno doubt that if a first-class Hackney sire beselected, and mated, say, with a good Welsh mare,or other hill pony, the produce should be verysatisfactory, and a profitable business might beestablished, through breeding this class of pony.Like every other variety of horse, no matter whetherof good or bad breeding, the Hackney has its defectsof conformation, and causes of unsoundness, someof which are believed to be of a hereditary nature ;though it is quite probable that many of theseso-called hereditary ailments have not beenhanded from parent to progeny,

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