Fashions in Horseflesh

The domesticated horse, closely associated with man throughout history, became his closest friend and favourite and the most serviceable of his animal servants. Accordingly he chose his breeding stock to suit his needs. Fashions and styles are always fickle and shifty, they come and go. In this way over the centuries the three ‘main’ types of horses, the heavy, the light and the small have undergone changes in features and characteristics, to accord with their use, purpose and habitat. The fashions in colour, styles in action, and power in muscles, have become adapted and modified to suit his requirements for work, pleasure and war

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