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the chief breeder of note is Mr. John Welford, of the Grange, 

 Loftus, who possesses an oki-established strain. One of his 

 foundation mares was Madam, a daughter of old Fidius Dius, 

 and a mare of much note at shows in the eighties. From her 

 he ])red his stallion Pitch and Toss, a sire who has made a 

 great mark, Init who is now over twenty years old. His sire 

 was Luck's Ail, avIio also was a stallion of much reputation in 

 his day. Pitcli and To^ts affords yet another striking instance 

 of the close relationship existing between the Cleveland and 

 Yorkshire coaching breeds, for his name is recorded in both 

 the C. B. and Y. C. H. stud-books. He is a typical, thick-set, 

 old-fashioned stamp of horse, with strong Cleveland character. 

 Another breeder of Clevelands in this part of the county is 

 Mr. Thomas Knaggs, of Tofts Farm, Marske-by-the-Sea. He 

 owns Saltburn Favourite, a descendant of Brilliant, and bred 

 by himself. This horse stands in the front rank as a sire. 

 Until recently Mr. Wilson Horsfall, of Potto Grange, near 

 Northallerton, and Mr. George Grandage, of Moorcroft 

 Yeadon, in the West Riding, were prominent breeders of 

 Clevelands and Coach Horses. The former owned a good 

 sire in Broomgrove Pride, and still has the famous mare, 

 Lady S'alton, Avhich was invincible in the show-ring some 

 seven years ago. 



The breeding of pedigree Cleveland Bays and Yorkshire 

 Coach Horses is now concentrated in the hands of a com- 

 paratively small number of breeders, and new supporters to 

 replace those who have dropped out, owing to death or from 

 other causes, are not, apparently, very readily forthcoming. 

 Admittedly the numbers bred have declined in the course 

 of the last six years or even longer. However, there are a 

 good many farmers who own non-registered mares of these 

 breeds^though they may not actually be pure bred — and 

 they breed them in a small way, rearing one or two, or 

 peril aps three foals each year. A fair number of Cleveland 

 and coaching stallions are found in the North Riding, l)ut in 

 the East and West Riding there are only quite a few of these 

 about. The breeding ground of the two breeds at the present 

 time extends in the main from Malton and the Vale of 

 Pickering northwards up to a line drawn, approximately, 

 from Saltburn on the coast to Yarm, and thence towards 

 Northallerton and Bedale. The country round Yarm, Guis- 

 borough, and Stokesley, comprising as it does the heart of the 

 Cleveland district, was in former times the chief centre of 

 the Cleveland lireed, but it ceased to be so when cart-horse 

 breeding gradually gained the upper hand in that part some 

 forty years ago. The Yorkshire Coach Horse, which is the 

 more numerously bred of the two, has a wider range than 



