CARRIAGE HORSES AND COBS. 189 



Xot long ago, an an English agricultural journal in- 

 quired, with much feeling and with less attention to 

 grammar, " When royalty or nobility wants a pair of 

 upstanding London carriage horses, where goes the 

 thousand guineas that hardly fetches them?" "Xot," 

 answering its own question, u to the struggling Eng- 

 lish occupier, but to the broad expanses of the Conti- 

 nent." Even the great job-masters of London (two 

 of whom supply no less than five hundred pairs of 

 carriage horses each to their customers, not counting 

 single brougham and victoria horses) had recourse at 

 one time to the Flemish horses. They were cheap 

 and good-looking, but so washy and soft, so deficient 

 in bone and endurance, so defective in those very 

 points which Gervase Markham condemned in them 

 two hundred years before, that, after a few years' 

 trial, they were commonly given up by the job- 

 masters. 



Closely allied to the Cleveland bays are the York- 

 shire coach horses. Separate stud-books are main- 

 tained in England for these families, although in 

 many instances the same animal is recorded in both 

 books, whereas in this country one compilation of 

 pedigrees does service for both strains. The differ- 

 ences between them are thus stated by Mr. Burdett- 

 Coutts : — 



"The Cleveland bays, in what I may call their 

 aboriginal form, are agricultural horses, with plenty 

 of grand points in their frame, but with no elegance 

 of -turning,' and without any action, and therefore 

 totally unfitted to produce from themselves alone the 

 big carriage horse. The Yorkshire coach horses have 

 both the qualities above referred to, but they, again. 



