The fIorse-/)reedi/u/ Industry in ) orlsTiir^. lOU 



;i.s elsewlu'i't' — when these men died oiit and a new generation 

 failed to support it as of oM. Not very far from Kirby 

 Moorside is Dnncombe l^u-k, Helmsley, where the Earl of 

 Feversham used to breed a few Clevelands, and where he has 

 generally kept a stallion of the breed for the use of his tenants 

 in the dales. In the opposite direction lies Pickering, and here 

 Mr. Frank Stericker, about as well known as anybody to-day in 

 connection with the Cleveland and Coacher, has the stud 

 which he started about 1877, and which for the' most part 

 consists of Coach Horses, but includes some good Cleveland 

 Bays. Some of the best representatives of these breeds during 

 the last thirty years have been inmates of this stud at various 

 times, and many horses have been sold abroad from it, Mr. 

 Stericker being a leading exporter. He owns at present a 

 notable Cleveland Bay stallion in Radium, a horse with great 

 bone and substance and of the old-fashioned type from which 

 breeders have been increasingly departing. This sire has got 

 some first-rate stock, amongst the best of his get being King''s 

 Herald. Mr. Stericker's chief stallion is the crack Coach Horse 

 Breaston Prince, one of the best of his breed. He is by Beacon 

 Prince, dam l)y Sxltcm, of Bi-ookfield fame, and has had a very 

 successful show career, having among many other successes 

 gained championship honours at the Yorkshire Show five 

 years in succession from '06 to '11. Breaston Prince is a 

 grand type of Coacher, standing 16*1 hands, with plenty of 

 quality and withal ample bone, and he is also an exceedingly 

 Ijrilliant and taking goer. For action he would indeed be hard 

 to beat. He has sired many good horses, including Gauntlet 

 and Eastern Prince, and his stock have done remarkably well 

 in the show-ring, so that his blood now is very fashionable. 

 Another stallion of note who until recently stood here was 

 Zord Chief Justice. The pick of Mr. Stericker's brood mares is 

 Elena, a big winner in Coaching classes, by Anaroyd, who was 

 sold to go to Chili for 200^., out of Princess Beatrice, a 

 Cleveland mare of the quality type and dam of the coaching 

 stallion Granville, who was prominent at leading shows some 

 years l)ack. 



Mr. John Lett, who has a well-known and large stud at 

 Rillington, near Malton, is another prominent supporter of 

 l)oth Clevelands and Coach Hoi'ses. He won at last year's 

 Royal with Gholderton Lurk, and among other sires owned by 

 him may l)e mentioned Hpecialitij, and his son Special Delight, 

 l)oth Coach Horses ; the latter's dam having been by the 

 thoroughbred Touchwood. Speciality was sold to go to South 

 America after a. few seasons at the stud here, and Special 

 Delight has been exported to South Africa. Turning north- 

 wards to the Cleveland district, the original home of the breed, 



