THE STUD BOOK AND HISTORY 425 



a descendant of this horse, foaled in the latter end of the 

 eighteenth century, taken from the lips of an old man who 

 remembered him, varied little from the general character of 

 the horse we now have with us." 



Barber's "Proctor" (58) (intended for a riding horse but 

 for an accident in nicking his tail, which necessitated his 

 being docked), the sire of at least half a dozen horses which 

 travelled in Norfolk at the beginning of last century, was 

 the son of Winter's " Stormer," a trotting horse of great sub- 

 stance. The latter was a son of Gooch's blood-horse, 

 brother to " Thunderbolt." The dam of Barber's "Proctor" was 

 a chestnut. This was the foundation of the " Shadingfield " 

 stock, a light-hearted, high-spirited lot and somewhat short- 

 tempered, chiefly dark chestnuts with white legs, though many 

 of the first few generations were bay. They were thin in the 

 shoulders, and light of bone below the hock ; but hard fleshed, 

 wiry, active horses, with long lean heads. The mares some- 

 times bred bay foals. 



The " Sampson " tribe, most probably an offshoot from the 

 " Farmer's Glory " stock, formed, with the four great branches 

 of the Suffolk breed already mentioned, the five chief tribes 

 from which the modern Suffolk horse is descended. At the 

 time the Stud Book history was written, 1 880, the " Blake " stock 

 was out of favour as sires and was dying out, but the blood 

 still remains on the female side. 



The Stud Book notice of 1902, already mentioned, says : 

 " All extraneous introductions have long since died out in the 

 male line, and those remarkable features -the short legs, 

 the rounded carcase, the longevity with vitality, are still the 

 well-known characteristics of the Suffolk horse." 



The essential requisites of a first-class Suffolk, condensed 

 from the Suffolk Stud Book and History of the Breed, pub- 

 lished in 1880 the most exhaustive and complete record 

 of its kind in the United Kingdom are as follows : 



" The recognised colour is chestnut, of which there are 

 seven shades the dark (at times approaching a brown-black, 

 mahogany, or liver colour), the dull dark, the light mealy, 

 the red, the golden, the lemon, and the bright chestnut. 

 The last is the most popular, being a lively shade, with a 

 slight gradation of light colour at the flanks and the extrem- 

 ities, and not infrequently shot with white or silver hairs 

 hereditarily distinctive of some strains, and mostly associated 



