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1578 T. Lupton All for Money sig. D.ii^v She may be verie glad that on thee her goods did spare That would let her foorth to be the deuils hacknie mare.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 25 Their horses of the countrey-breed are..small hackney-iades.

1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iv. 64 Syc. How wilt thou carry me thither? Steph. Upon a Hackney-Devil of thy Mothers.

1784 T. Holcroft tr. Foucher d'Obsonville Philos. Ess. Foreign Animals 253 One of the breeds [of Horses]..is called Hatik; it is produced from hackney mares..called Kucdich and Blood-stallions.

1808 Monthly Mag. Apr. 197/1 Like hackney post-horses, fed with beans.

1883 H. Jennings Childishness & Brutality of Time ii. 38 That Literature should be treated thus, as a hackney steed..,—as a horse which anyone can mount..—is monstrous.

1884 (title) Hackney stud book.

1916 Field Dec. 1022/2 Judge Moore's champion hackney mare, Lady Seaton, considered by many experts to be the greatest mare of the breed.

1995 B. L. Hendricks Internat. Encycl. Horse Breeds 209/2 Two men who gave the area of East Riding its name as one of the homes of the Hackney breed.

2005 J. H. Dutson Storey's Illustr. Guide 96 Horse Breeds N. Amer. 123/1 Hackney stallions are still crossed on other breeds to improve substance, motion, and endurance.