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never was much of anything about the breed to 

 recommend it. Cold-blooded and not attractive 

 in conformation or action, when bred in its 

 purity, it never appeale'd specially to American 

 horsemen. Eecognizing that the Cleveland 

 Bay was too slow certain English breeders in- 

 jected Thoroughbred blood into it and called 

 the result the Yorkshire Coach Horse. There 

 are separate stud books in England, but in this 

 country both sorts are registered in one book. 

 Some very beautiful specimens of the York- 

 shire Coach horse have been shown here as 

 Cleveland Bays, which was all right so long as 

 they were all recorded in the Cleveland Bay 

 book, but one of the most attractive though 

 possibly not the best we remember was a 

 golden bay stallion bred in Illinois and his sire 

 was a horse with three or four crosses of 

 Thoroughbred blood. In short the Cleveland 

 Bay had neither the blood nor the action to be- 

 come permanently popular in America. True, 

 he did beget from fine trotting-bred mares some 

 high-class carriage horses, but then we must 

 remember the old Scotch proverb that "if you 

 boil a whinstone in butter the bree (soup) will 

 be good." Yet the Cleveland Bay alone of all 

 our so-called coach breeds was in reality a 

 coach horse within the original meaning of 

 that term. 



