The Orange County Stud Book

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Excerpt from The Orange County Stud Book: Giving a History of All Noted Stallions, Bred and Raised in Orange County, To Which Is Added a Complete History of the Horse, in All Countries in Health and in Sickness, With a Though Treatise on His Breeding, Breaking, Shoeing and CuringIn many countries Of modern times, wild horses have a material in¿uence on the breed. The Cossacks take vast numbers on the desert tracts in the vicinity of the Don, and breed from them by crossing them with their domesticated horses, which are said to be much improved thereby. If this be correct, their domesticated horses must be very inferior animals. These herds are the Offspring of the Russian horses used at the siege of Azof, when Peter the Great took it from the Turks. From want of provender, he was compelled to set nearly all his cavalry horses at liberty, and these have now become wild, associating in troops like other wild horses. Such of these horses as have remained on the lowlands near the river are of a large size, as is usual. Those which have penetrated to the mountain districts resemble the horses from which they sprang.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.