“What kind of horse is Dahr?” I asked, noticing his equally smooth gait. “I suppose you’d call him a destrier,” Matthew explained. That was the mount that carried knights to the Crusades. “He was bred for speed and agility.” “I thought destriers were enormous warhorses.” Dahr was bigger than Rakasa, but not much. “They were large for the time. But they weren’t big enough to carry any of the men in this family into battle, not once we had armor on our backs, and weapons. We trained on horses like Dahr and rode them for pleasure, but we fought on Percherons like Balthasar.”
