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show breeding. It is a horse showing blood and breeding, Avith 

 lofty crest, niagnificient withers, round barrelled, and clean 

 limbed, a coat like satin, and a head of excellent proportions. 

 Colts from such a horse out of large, roomy mares of good style, 

 will always sell for high prices. When you find such a stallion 

 do not be afraid to buy, he will paj-, and his foals will i)ay for 

 their feed and training. 



The old fashioned horse of this race, the Cleveland bay, is ex- 

 tinct and gone. The present form is the result of crosses with 

 staunch thoroughbreds, giving better form throughout, greater 

 speed and good style. We consider them as among the very best 

 from which to breed stylish animals from proper mares. Horses 

 that may do the ordinary farm work until six years past, and 

 then be sold at good prices for stylish omnibus, express, light 

 draft, and carriage horses in our cities. Persons who have 

 laroe, well built mares, wishing to breed colts that shall have 

 size enough for any farm or road work ; that will breed to uni- 

 form color, so that they may be easily matched ; that will have 

 style — not that of the blood horse, or light driving, or trotting 

 l^orse — will do well to investigate the characteristics of the Cleve- 

 land bays. Canada has acquired a high reputation for stylish, 

 well matched coach horses. It is founded in a great measure 

 upon crosses produced by breeding the modern Cleveland bays 

 upon large, handsome mares of more or less breeding. 



Such horses if properly cared for will do eight or nine miles 

 an hour, in harness, and under the saddle may be pushed up to 

 twelve miles an hour ; are active in all their gaits, tractable, 

 easily managed, intelligent, fast walkers, alwaj^s ready for their 

 feed, and as eager at labor, as they are kind and intelligent every 

 where. The late Henry William Herbert, a thorough horseman, 

 an accurate judge of horseflesh, and a finished writer, in his vol- 

 uminous work, ^' The Horse o." America," thus describes the 

 original Cleveland bay, and also the improved horse of his 

 time : ^' The Cle\ eland bay in its natural and unmixed form, is a 

 tall, j)Owei'ful^^y built, bony animal, averaging, I should say, fif- 

 teen hands three inches in height, rarely falling short of fifteen 

 and a half or exceeding sixteen and a, half hands. 



