The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1899-01: Vol 8 Iss 42 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 96
l black mares herded by mounted guardians | on their fine pastures, so like each other that it is hard to distinguish one from the other, about 16 hands high, with just | those shapes we look for in a brood mare, and all bred true to type. Then, again, but little behind them in size, come a… … THE BLACK MARES OF TRAKEHNEN seventy bays, and two groups of about eighty each of mixed colours. The first, called the big riding mares, are a fine lot of sixteen-hand mares, and should breed high-class chargers and cavalry horses; the next are a smaller lot from 15-1 to 15:2, again of | all…
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