244 CLEVELAND BAYS. 



Eastern blood during the Koman occupation of 

 Britain. It is known that races were held at 

 York during that period, in which Arabs and 

 Barbs contended, and a legion of Crispinian horse 

 was at one time stationed at Danum (the modern 

 Doncaster), and they were mounted on horses 

 obtained at Carthage. 



And this theory of an early admixture of 

 Eastern blood seems all the more reasonable, 

 because in Devonshire and Cornwall exists, or did 

 exist till a recent date, a breed of horses similar 

 in every respect but one to the Cleveland Bay. 

 This was the Devonshire Pack Horse, a powerful, 

 good sized, and active animal, and in fact a fac- 

 simile of the Cleveland Bay save that his legs 

 were white instead of black. The latter peculiarity 

 was also characteristic of the Northumberland 

 Chapman horse, a breed which has now dis- 

 appeared, having been crossed out of recognition, 

 a fate which was likely to have befallen the 

 Cleveland Bay, now the sole representative of 

 those ancient and useful breeds of horses. 



The Carthaginians carried on an extensive 

 trade with Cornwall and the neia-hbourino- counties 

 long before it entered the ambitious mind 

 of Cassar to attempt the conquest of Britain, 

 and what more likely than that they should 

 occasionally, nay frequently, have brought over a 

 few stallions with the view of having that kind of 

 bargain so dear to the minds of some, which is 



