Galloway Nag - article by Miriam Bibby

Salvete Omnes,
a short entry on horse history from the British Isles:
I would like to point your attention to this horse history article by   Miriam Bibby, a historian and equestrian and also a friend,  posted this article on her academia site:
From North to South: the Galloway Nag as an Elite Gift in the 16 th Century.
and I would like to post a quote from a historic work of Willima Youatt:
From Youatt (1898)-p103-4

Dr. Anderson thus describes the galloway : — 
'There was once a breed 
of small elegant horses in Scotland, similar to those of Iceland 

and Sweden, and which were known by the name of galloways; 

the best of which sometimes reached the height of fourteen 

hands and a half. One of this description I possessed, it 

having been bought for my use when a boy. 

In point of elegance of shape it was a perfect picture; 

and in disposition was gentle and compliant.

It moved almost with a wish, and never tired. 

I rode this little creature for twenty-five years,

and twice in that time I rode a hundred and fifty miles 

at a stretch, without stopping, except to bait, 

and that not for above an hour at a time. It came 

in at the last stage with as much ease and alacrity as 

it travelled the first, 1 could have undertaken to have

performed on this beast, when it was in its prime, 

sixty miles a day fora twelvemonth running, 

without any extra- ordinary exertion.' 

Icelandic horses with hay

Valete!