Description
It is interesting to consider just how different might have been the course of history had it not been for the horse. Until the coming was an of mechanisation the horse Indispensable slave, hauling wagon-loads of goods and carriages full of and carts on of people, dragging ploughs farms, carrying merchants about their businesses and transporting people of all trades and professions about their everyday lives. But of even greater influence on the course of history was the use of horses in battle, from the fleet chariots of ancient armies to the great war horses of the Middle Ages and the perfectly drilled cavalry regiments that were deployed in battle until what seems only yesterday, historically speaking. Success in almost every field of human endeavour was once dependent on the and no other animal has been so the horse closely associated with man's development or been so instrumental in
bringing about the rise and fall of civilizations. Today, it might be argued that the horse is no longer of such value to us, and yet, every year, more and more young people learn to of it and yearn ride for the sheer pleasure to have their own ponies, while many millions of people enjoy the spectator sports of horse- racing, show jumping and eventing. Perhaps after so many centuries of association with the horse we still feel the need to acquire the skills of horsemanship and preserve them against the day when we may depend once again!
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