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Sportsman, Wonderful, Barnahy, Emperor, and Rosehery, 

 these names having been mnch in vogue with breeders of 

 former generations, but these horses must not be confused with 

 their more illustrious namesakes. The stallion Sportsman 

 alluded to above, was bred by James Hindson of Ugthorpe, 

 near Whitl)y, a very noted old breeder of Clevelands, who 

 possessed a pure strain that went back for many genera- 

 tions. The country round Whitby was then, as it still is, 

 a great stronghold of the Cleveland, some of the oldest 

 strains having been preserved here with care and tenacity, and 

 the breed continued to prosper and was freely supported in 

 this neighbourhood at a time when it was allowed to fall into 

 neglect almost everywhere else in its native parts. Another 

 well-known old breeder was Thomas Peart, of Great Ayton, 

 who owned a noted brood-mare called Darling that won 

 many prizes some fifty years ago. Fidius Dius, after having 

 changed hands once or twice previously, was bought by the 

 late Hon. James Lowther, who had a stud of Clevelands near 

 Redcar, and was a great supporter of the breed until his death 

 ten years ago, though he had given up his stud some years 

 before. He did much to advance its interests at a time when 

 support was badly needed, and took a prominent part when 

 the Cleveland Bay Society was founded, becoming one of its 

 first presidents. 



One of the best known Cleveland stallions of more recent 

 times probably was Sultan, who was sold in 1886 as a two- 

 year-old by his breeder George Leefe, of Fryton, Slingsby, to 

 Mr. Burdett-Coutts for his Brookfield stud, where a very 

 representative collection of Cleveland Bays and Yorkshire 

 Coach Horses was got together. Of these two breeds, Mr. 

 Burdett-Coutts' preference was essentially for the latter one 

 and for the quality type of Cleveland, his object being the 

 breeding of carriage horses. As is well known he commenced 

 systematically to cross the Hackney and these old Yorkshire 

 breeds, antl so bred some fine strains of harness horses. Sultan's 

 grandsire was the noted Emperor, whose original name was 

 Blandsby, ah-eady mentioned above. He had a very successful 

 show career, and won repeatedly in the classes for coaching 

 stallions at the Royal and Great Yorkshire Shows in the 

 late eighties. Sultan showed much quality for a Cleveland 

 at that period, and partook largely of the Coach Horse 

 type, while he had very good action. Among the Cleveland 

 and coaching matrons of choice blood at the Brookfield stud 

 there was a notable mare called Fanny, a prominent winner 

 at the Yorkshire shows at the end of the seventies and 

 in the early eighties. She was bred by Thomas Jackson, of 

 Ugthorpe, and came of one of the many old-established strains 



