THE HEAVY-HARNESS BREEDS OF HORSES 75 



action is not specially high, but it is the kind for getting 

 over the ground. In color he is bay either light or 

 dark with black 

 legs clear of hair; 

 and black, zebra-like 

 stripes on the arm and j$f''~\. 

 above the hocks are 

 sometimes seen. 

 These are known as 

 the black points and 

 are supposed to de- 

 note special purity of 

 breeding. White, 

 save a small star or a 



i . , i . , i FIG. 12. Cleveland Bay stallion. 



few white hairs in the 



heel, is not admissible, a blaze or white foot proclaiming 

 at once the admixture of foreign blood " 1 (Figs. 12, 



13) . An early writer 2 

 makes the following 

 comment on the old 

 stamp of Cleveland 

 Bay, just about the 

 time the Thorough- 

 bred was to be used 

 most liberally : "Very 

 many of the Cleve- 

 land horses are disfig- 

 ured by having large 

 heads and Roman 



FIG. 13. Cleveland Bay mare. 



noses; and it is only 

 when these parts are, to a certain extent, concealed by 



Wallace, Farm Live Stock of Great Britain. 



John Burke, Royal Agricultural Society Report, Vol. V, 1844. 



