THE BREEDS OF HORSES. 241 

 CLEVELAND BAYS. 



Many years ago, before railways came into 

 general use, there existed in England a famous 

 breed of strong carriage or coach horses known 

 as Cleveland Bays. They were bred chiefly in 

 the vale of Cleveland, in the East Riding of 

 Yorkshire, and were uniformly of a bay color; 

 hence the name Cleveland Bay. But with 

 the advent of the railway and the improve- 

 ment of the roadways in general, the demand 

 for the strong horses of which the Cleveland 

 Bay was the type fell off until finally it came 

 to be regarded as practically extinct, and all 

 English writers upon the horse with whom I am 

 conversant, who wrote from about 1840 down 

 to ten years ago, such as Youatt and Burn, 

 Youatt and Spooner, Prof. Low and "Frank For- 

 rester/' have treated of the Cleveland Bay as no 

 longer in existence as a distinct breed. "Frank 

 Forrester" (Henry William Herbert), the most 

 recent of these writers, in Vol. II, p. 20, of his 

 great work, speaks as follows of the course of 

 breeding which has rendered the Cleveland Bay 

 extinct: 



The first gradation, when pace became a desideratum 

 with hounds, was the stinting of the best Cleveland Bay 

 mares to good thoroughbred horses, with a view of the prog- 

 eny turning out hunters, troop-horses, or, in the last resort, 

 stage-coach horses, or, as they were termed, machiners. 

 The most promising of these half-bred colts were kept as 

 stallions; and mares, of the same type, with their dams, 



