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The Old English Black Horse is an extinct horse breed.

The Old English Black Horse is an extinct horse breed. This page is just a list. ...

Old English Black - extinct
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From these not only the Fell was bred but also the Old English Black (now merged into the Shire Horse) and the now extinct Galloway and Fen ponies. The Fell Pony's similarity to the Friesian horse has always been striking.

The well-known English writer on horses, Anthony Dent, and others are of the opinion that the Friesian horse influenced the Old English Black Horse and the Fell Pony.

The origin of the Shire breed is lost in the mists of antiquity, which is true for many breeds, but it is believed that it is a descendant of the Old English Black Horse whose ancestors were considered the 'great horses' during medieval times.

Some say that the Shire descended from the horses William the Conqueror brought to England , more certainly they are probably descended from the old English black horses of the middle ages which knights rode into battle.

It derives from the Old English Black Horse, which inturn stems from the Great Horse of chivalric times. The Great Horse'sancestry is uncertain, but it is likely to have come from northern Europeanstock, especially from the black Friesian horses.

The breed's ancestors subsequently became known as the Old English Black Horse. The name Shire was given to the breed in the 1700s. It was originally bred in the counties of Lincoln and Cambridge in east-central England.

One of the only surviving indigenous breeds of the Netherlands, the Friesian horse was used as military mounts as far back as 150 A.D. Thought to be the foundation for the "Old English Black" which is an ancestor to both the Shire horse and the Fell ...

Dent describes the presence of independent Friesian troops at Carlisle in the 4th Century which probably related to mercenaries with Friesian stallions. Dent also mentions that Friesian horses were probably the foundation for the "Old English Black", ...

The Friesian's influence was manifested in the Dales and Fell Ponies and in the Old English Black from the Midlands. This Former breed was used for the King's Household Cavalry during the reign of Charles II (1660-85).

A considerable number of Friesian horses were imported into northern England during Roman times and influenced the development of various breeds, most notably the Fell, the Old English Black (which were used in the development of Shire Horses) and ...

to go to the aid of their besieged home city of Rome, they left behind about one thousand Friesian horses, most of which were stallions, and which were bred with the native ponies. From these not only the Fell was bred but also the Old English Black ...

See also: Black, Shire, Friesian, Shire Horse, Stallion