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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 582

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nto hunters or obtain the services of someone who can. As, however, the thoroughbred hunter is notcommon, men must ride something else, andhunters vary in character as much as they do insize. In the field one sees every possible type,from the horse which only just misses beingthoroughbred, the old… … Light-Weight Hunter. practically impossible to put forward any stampof horse as the true type of hunter, except inthe highest class of horses, horses fit to carryfourteen stone and upwards up to the tail otthe hounds in a stiffly fenced country. Just as the tyro at fiddling can do with a…

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