424 FARM HORSES SUFFOLK PUNCHES 



the top, deep round the chest, long backed, high in the croup, 

 large and strong in the quarters, full in the flanks, round in 

 the legs, and short in the pasterns. The Suffolk would tug 

 at a dead pull until he dropped. He was the very horse to 

 throw his weight into a collar with sufficient activity to do it 

 efficiently, and hardihood to stand a long day's work. The 

 present breed possesses many of the peculiarities and good 

 qualities of its ancestors ; it is a taller horse, higher and finer 

 in the shoulders ; and is a cross with the Yorkshire, half or 

 three-fourths bred." 



The Suffolk Stud Book disagrees with Youatt's idea of the 

 origin of the blood introduced to refine the ungainly form of 

 the original Suffolk breed, and shows very conclusively that 

 whatever other crosses had been made, there were two impor- 

 tations of horses from Lincolnshire and one admixture 

 of thoroughbred blood. In 1764, Andrew Blake, a well- 

 known breeder of Suffolk horses and owner of stallions, intro- 

 duced " Farmer'' (174) and advertised him as a Lincolnshire 

 trotting stallion. He was a marked success as a breeder, 

 and his progeny realised good prices. By the third or fourth 

 cross they were in turn advertised as pure Suffolks. 



In 1 80 1 and 1802, Wright's " Attleborough Farmer's 

 Glory" (1396), believed to be a half-bred Suffolk imported 

 from Lincolnshire, travelled in Suffolk, and " in the first 

 decade of last century there were a good many of the sons of 

 Wright's horse in Suffolk." He was advertised as a " beautiful 

 chestnut cart horse," and " had a little white, and his legs 

 were a little hairy." The horses of the present day are 

 descended from those two animals, Barber's "Proctor" (58), 

 and Crisp's horse (404) of Ufford, the horse of which the 

 earliest individual records exist, foaled in 1768, a year after 

 Blake's " Farmer " was first advertised. 



A Historical Notice of the breed, issued by the Society in 

 1902, says : 



" A curious feature in connection with the Suffolk, is the 

 fact that every animal of the breed now in existence traces its 

 descent in the direct male line in one unbroken chain to Crisp's 

 horse. The form, as described in the advertisements of the 

 time" [15^ hands high; light chestnut, and active; Crisp's 

 noted horse ; fit to breed good stock for coach or road] " tallies 

 with the specimens of the present day, with just that modifi- 

 cation of form which judicious introduction of more elegant 

 elements would be likely to effect. A detailed description of 



