Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-06-18
EUROPEAN HORSES


thousand stations upwards fifty Mares
whom the Orof trotters produccd'
The OrlOf trottcrs esteemed they formerly
because in harneshorses action required than and
pace they approach American the
Orof trotters, the Orof nags celebrated
These also descend Smoensa Barb called Sultan
crossed with English and Anglo Arab According Russian
writer's they combine the good qualities both their parents and
without equang their English pogenors speed they exceed
them beauty soundness doc and aptitude for all military
poses Like they preserve and
attempt to introduce fresh doses English Arab blood has
failed sgnal1y
AN dealer his the Lords
committee horse supply pronounced Russian riding horses
imported into Hull the best he had foreigners he
had sccnbu they cheap. If prices justified mpor
Russian high quality might
collected breeding purposes says the
respondent The Times February 1874 generally
indeed wonderful Cossac cavalry will keep good condi
ton when they get nothing tygs and
from what have them should say that the St Petersburg
sleigh carriage marvellous
world Carriages home here London after they
have taken their dinner the theatre They will
hours hours twenty degrees frost
the horses have been heated by rapid driving Neither
have walk their horses while they
waiting but stand them still the doorway get their
places the rank and stop there Yet the animals take
harm, and you seldom with cold Frank Forester
marked the quality of endurance the valuable Amcr
Mr. Berenger says:
The German were known to the Romans They
mentioned by Cesar and Tacus but by the latter much
their credit
Contrary o practice times contrary to the
rules of (ounded upon the truth naturc these people
making taught them to 90 in this
pace by the help cords, legs
their steps make them the legs
and then follow with other which
ted the amble.
This Pny, wrote treatise on the art of
riding which is lost
who valued themselves upon their skill
riding and had prize the the
to change horses with their vanquhed antagonists and again,
purely to show that the victory not be acrbed the
horses only
In managing horses, they proud lofty action
they tie weights to their pastcrn joints
compel them their they particularly required in
the ambe to make their horses gracefully safely and with
to the rider preferrng this pace the which, the violence
and hardshps of the notion disagrecabe
There still existing horses the
action of the amb The horses Castor Poux the capitol
Rome the four horses OF bronze the porco Of St Mark
Venice and the horses Of Bbus Portc all the
tude Some horses also to be in the position
more modern date whose statues made when the began
revive such are the equestrian figures Florence
"A these vouchers, which prove which
Romans (wh they knew bee had for the pace called by
them ambnlamra and with the ambe Notwithstanding
ever that this had much merit with those who loved their
may Judge the
Gent equestrian of them will by
ude in which the horses placed that the wholly
disrcgarded
With respect however the PAGES, the ambc and
ot to be presumed that the might
difference but copied what they and did they
from the evidence of these works clearly appears both
PAGES were used but it is plain from passages many authors that
the amblc, or 0W6HlahTa as called by Vegeius the
admired and that much skill and labor employed
render the horses perfect ages practice;
and modern horsemanhp for bndy rod
path all the writings and those containing
rules and directions for teaching by methods faulty
imperfect Light last broke and good
edge founded experience have cOncured Danish with
contempt from the maneg where the
acknowledged as the only which enable ami
NAL to support and balance himself with ness