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of Cleveland Bays, but he is apt, after the lapse 

 of a few generations, to get light of bone and a 

 little leggy, and recourse has again to be had to 

 the Cleveland to restore that substance which is 

 an essential to every good specimen of the breed. 



Amongst old breeders of Cleveland Bays, Mr. 

 Weatherill, of Hob Hill, bears an honoured name, 

 though but little is known of him now save what 

 tradition has preserved. From his famous horse, 

 Farmer's Glory, better known now as the Hob 

 Hill Horse, are descended some of the best 

 Cleveland Bays of modern times. Farmer's 

 Glory was bought at Yarm fair when a yearling, 

 rumour says without a pedigree, but he was a 

 wonderfully successful horse at the stud. Old 

 Willy Barker, who died at Marton-in-Cleveland 

 in 1860, at the advanced age of eighty-two, and 

 who will be remembered by many shorthorn 

 men as the attendant on Mr. Hopper's famous 

 bull, Belleville, used to say that he remembered 

 Mr. Weatherill showing the Hob Hill Horse and 

 six of his sons on the same day at the Stallion Fair 

 at Guisbrough, a pretty conclusive proof that 

 these were the horses most used in the country 

 at that time, when as a matter of fact the cart 

 horse was practically unknown in the Yale of 

 Cleveland. 



Tommy Masterman, too, was a great breeder 

 of Cleveland Bay horses, and owned several 

 famous sires, to wit, Skyrocket, Summercock, 



