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Newark ; Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart, Elsenham Hall, Essex ; 

 A. Grandage, Bramhope Stud Farm, Leeds; Sir Walpole 

 Greenwell, Bart., Marden Park, Caterham Valley, Surrey ; 

 Sir Alex. Henderson, Bart, Buscot Park, Faringdon, Berks ; 

 Lord Hothfield, Hothfield Place, Ashford, Kent; R. W. 

 Hudson, Danesfield, Marlow, Buckinghamshire ; William 

 Jackson, The Hall, Knottingley, Yorkshire; J. W. Ken- 

 worthy, of Castle Hill, Kelsall, Chester ; Max. Michaelis, 

 Tandridge Court, Oxted, Godstone, Surrey ; Lord Middleton, 

 Birdsall House, York; Sir P. Albert Muntz, Bart, M.P., 

 Dunsmore, Rugby ; Lord Rothschild, Tring Park, Herts ; 

 Leopold Salomons, Norbury Park, Dorking ; R. N. Sutton- 

 Nelthorpe, Scawby, Lincoln ; W. & J. Thompson, Barrens 

 Park Shire Stud, Desford, Leicester ; and Lady Wantage, 

 Lockinge, Wantage, Berks. 



THE SUFFOLK PUNCH 



Is named from its native county, and from its compact 

 and rounded form, its thick-set body, and short, hard, clean 

 legs and fairly short pastern, free from coarse hairs. The 

 colour is chestnut. White legs are very objectionable, or a 

 bald face. It is said that the colour was derived through a 

 cross with imported Norwegian horses, brought, like some of 

 the progenitors of the trotting hackneys, by the early Norse 

 invaders. The form and action of certain of the Norfolk 

 hackneys of the day leave no reasonable grounds for doubting 

 that, however the Norfolk trotter and Suffolk Punch may now 

 differ in size, style, and general appearance, they must have 

 been intimately connected with one another at some 

 period. 



Arthur Young, writing in the end of the eighteenth 

 century, mentions the Suffolk Punch as being one of two 

 varieties of cart-horses the large black, or old English horse, 

 being the other. 



Youatt, fully half a century later, says : " Horses for slower 

 draught, and sometimes even for the carriage, are produced 

 from the Suffolk Punch, so called from his round punchy make, 

 and descended from the Norman stallion and the Suffolk 

 cart mare. The true Suffolk, like the Cleveland, is now nearly 

 extinct. It stood from 15 to 16 hands high, of a sorrel (chest- 

 nut) colour ; was large headed, low shouldered, and thick on 



