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Liverton, also a pure bred Cleveland Bay, is a 

 fine specimen of a Coach horse. 



Mr. Kirby especially favours crossing the fine 

 qualitied and somewhat light timbered Coaching 

 mares with a Cleveland horse, and in this opinion 

 he is supported by many eminent breeders and 

 judges, who are convinced that without constant 

 recourse to the source from which they emanate, 

 the Yorkshire Coach Horse would soon ' breed 

 oat.' 



Messrs. Stericker Brothers also do a large 

 trade in Cleveland Bays and Coach horses, as 

 well as in Shires and Clydesdales. They have 

 a large establishment at Springfield, Illinois, 

 where Mr. R. P. Stericker, who is the Secretary 

 of the American Cleveland Bay Horse Society, 

 is at the head of afiairs. The establishment at 

 Pickering is managed by Mr. F. H. Stericker, 

 who is well known in the Show ring as a pains- 

 taking judge of horses. Messrs. Stericker annually 

 export a great number of horses to the States, 

 and some very good ones they generally have. 



Perhaps one of the smartest they ever sent 

 across is Napoleon, a horse that took a second 

 prize at Islington, and on his arrival in America 

 a second at the Illinois State Fair, and a first at 

 the Great Fat Stock Show at Chicago ; a veiy 

 good performance, for it was well into June when 

 he was shown at Islington, and he was shown at 

 Chicago in the early part of October. 



