six-and-a-half-foot

Updated: March 10, 2026

They are not cobs, and look 'very little of them', and have no beauty; but one of these little brutes, ungroomed, half-fed, seldom stabled, will carry a six-and-a-half-foot Dutchman sixty miles a day, day after day, at a shuffling easy canter, six miles an hour.

Lady Lucie Duff Gordon - Letters from the Cape