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trict, and every part of the kingdom is thence supplied 

 with horses for show, and to a great degree, for usefulness. 

 Even the royal stables thence obtain some of their chiefest 

 ornaments. 



The produce of Cleveland mares is a coach-horse of high 

 repute, and likely to possess good action. His points are, 

 substance well placed, deep and well-proportioned body, 

 strong, and clean bone under the knee, open, sound, and 

 tough feet, with fine knee-action, lifting his feet high. The 

 full-sized coach-horse is in fact an overgrown hunter. 



The old Cleveland horse is almost extinct, and his place 

 supplied in the manner just described. The Suffolk Punch, 

 the product chiefly of Suffolk and some of the neighboring 

 districts, is regenerated, but is a different sort of animal to 

 the breed of olden times. He usually varied from fifteen to 

 sixteen hands in height, and was of a son-el color. He was 

 large headed, low-shouldered, broad and low on the withers, 

 deep and yet round chested; long in the back, large and 

 strong in the quarters, round in the legs, and strong in the 

 pasterns. He would throw his whole weight into the collar, 

 and had sufficient hardihood and strength to stand a long 

 day's work. The pure breed has, however, passed away, and 

 is succeeded by a cross between the half or three-parts bred 

 Yorkshire with the old Suffolk. He is taller than the former 

 horse, somewhat higher and firmer about the shoulders, with 

 sufficient quickness of action and honesty to exert himself to 

 the utmost at a dead pull, whilst the proportion of the with- 

 ers enables him to throw immense weight into the collar. 

 The encouragement given by the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England for horses of this class has been the cause of con- 

 siderable increase in their numbers. 



Another breed is the heavy draught-horse, found usually 

 in the line of country from Lincolnshire to Staffordshire. 

 These are often purchased by the Berkshire and Surrey far- 

 mers at two years old, worked moderately until they are 

 four earning their keep during the whole of the time and 

 then sent to the London market at a considerable profit. 



A dray-horse should have a broad chest, thick and 

 upright shoulders, a low forehand, a deep and round frame, 

 the loins broad and high, the forearms and thighs thick, the 

 legs short, the hoofs round, the heels broad, and the sole not 

 too flat The largest of these horses are used as dray-horses, 

 the next as wagon-horses, and a smaller variety, with more 

 blood, is employed by the undertaker. The larger ones the 

 dray-horses of the metropolitan and other brewers are 



