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that the Society has overcome the prohibition as formu- 

 lated by the Department of Agriculture in the United 

 States (1918), forbidding the importation on and after 

 January ist last of all horses except pure-bred ones, for 

 breeding purposes and racing, from Great Britain. 

 The Hackney Horse Society sent a special representative 

 over to the States, and the order has now been rescinded, 

 excepting that relating to horses from continental 

 Europe, which is still to remain in force. The prices of 

 hackneys vary according to age, sex, pedigree, etc., but 

 a very good horse of this class can be bought for 80 or 90 

 guineas, and a useful stamp of hackney pony should be 

 obtained, as a sound animal, for 60 guineas. The hackney 

 cob, when in harness, makes about as smart a turn-out 

 as it is possible to conceive, and if anyone prefers a horse 

 in single harness to that of a small car, the hackney is 

 the sort to buy. 



The Cleveland Bay 



This is a very handsome variety of horse of the coach 

 horse type, in the manufacture of w^hich breed the Cleve- 

 land Bay must have played a significant part. The Vale 

 of Cleveland, in Yorkshire, more especially around 

 Wliitby and Pickering, is the land of its nativity, and 

 some of the best specimens come from that district. 

 Somehow or another the Cleveland Bay has never 

 attained any particular degree of popularity, but the 

 reason of this is not very clear unless it be due to the 

 decline of coaching. It certainly deserves to occupy a 

 much bettei position than it has ever attained, as the 

 conformation is usually of the best. The typical colour 

 is either light or dark bay, with black legs. There is 

 usually a star on the forehead, but no white elsewhere, 

 unless sometimes in the hollow of the heel, the existence 

 of which breeders regard as a sign that some other blood 

 has been introduced into the breed. Most of these horses 

 have exceptionally good legs and feet, the limbs being 



