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whether the latter derived the practice from his lordship, I am not an- 

 tiquarian enough on the subject of curtails, to determine. That 

 lord, however, obtained one of the ends of setting fashions, the French 

 have since called a Horse with a cut tail, iin Cadogan. His present 

 IVIajesty justly and wisely restored the natural right of tails to his 

 Cavahy. 



The new breed of Suffolk cart-horses has resulted from covering the 

 the marcs of the old stock with Yorkshire stallions, such as are used to 

 get saddle stock; thence the ilat and coaching shoulder of the present Suf- 

 folk, and their ability to trot. I can discover no benefit in the change, 

 as Suffolk is not a breeding county, excepting for home use ; and as the 

 Horses, with the exception perhaps of a few instances at home, are of 

 no repute for quick draught. I am not aware of the great use of trot- 

 ting to plough and cart-horses; it is sufficient that they can walk well, 

 a pace in which the old breed excelled, and as to powers of draught, 

 the new have no pretensions of comparison. On the whole, I appre- 

 hend this to have been a mere fanciful change, which does no credit to 

 the judgment of those in Avhom it originated, and whose names I 

 have forgotten. 



We have, or had yet two other breeds of the cart-horse, of distin- 

 guished excellence, and highly spoken of by Mr. Culley, whose 

 opinion deserves the utmost attention. These are the Cleve- 

 land Bays, in Yorkshire, and the Clydesdale or Lanarkshire 

 Horses in Scotland. The first are a kind of coach-horses, and their 

 chief merit seems to be using much expedition with their load over 

 the roads: inconsequence of their lightness, a greater number of them 

 must be used, than of real cart-horses, which is the object of a compa- 

 rative estimate. I know nothing of the Lanark Horse, beyond the re- 

 port of his activity and goodness. 



The terms Galloway and Poney, now relate simply to height; the 

 former, derived from the galloways of Scotland, being generally about 

 that standard, serves to distinguish any Horse, mare or gelding, between 

 thirteen and sometimes a little above fourteen hands high, although 

 generally the full size commences at fourteen hands. The poney ends 

 at thirteen hands. There are ponies from tlie isle of Shetland, barely 



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