CLEVELAND BAYS AND YORKSHIRE COACH HORSES. 6j 



Clydesdale, or Shire horse, whose " feather " they looked on 

 and still look on with dislike. It is to this tenacity of pur- 

 pose that we owe the existence of the Cleveland Bay as a 

 distinct breed at the present day. Mr. Hindson, of Ugthorpe, 

 who has had a capital strain of Cleveland Bay horses all his 

 life, kept some good stallions, and his example was followed 

 by Mr. John Welford, who, like Mr. Hindson, has always 

 owned a stud of high class Clevelands. Then the Right Hon. 

 James Lowther came to the rescue, and not only purchased 

 Fidius Dius at the Guisbrough Park sale, but set to work to 

 get some good mares together. Amongst others he purchased 

 the descendants of the mares that had been bought for Earl 

 Fitzwilliam by the late Admiral Chaloner a purchase which 

 has proved a distinct gain, not only to Mr. Lowther's stud, 

 but to the country, for the best blood in the country ran in 

 the veins of the mares which hailed from Coollatin. They 

 were by Brilliant, an elder brother of Captain Cook, who was 

 very successful both in the show ring and at the stud, and a 

 son of Harry York's Wonderful Lad and Mr. Peart's famous 

 mare Darling. So that when the time came that Cleveland 

 Bays were wanted, there were plenty to be found. Not that 

 they were there in any great numbers at first. Men were not 

 so careful about breeding them as they are now, and many of 

 the mares were mated with thoroughbred horses, with the 

 object of breeding hunters ; but there were quite plenty 'of 

 mares, and stallions too, to form the nucleus of a breed. 



The revival of the general interest in Cleveland Bays may 

 be said to date from 1883. In the previous year it had taken 

 all Mr. T. Parrington's influence to get a class for Cleveland 

 Bay mares inserted in the prize schedule of the York Meeting 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society, and only one mare was 

 exhibited. This was Mr. W. D. Fetch's Fanny, a mare that 

 he sold to Mr. A. E. Pease, and that subsequently found a 

 home in the Brookfield stud. 



But if Fanny was the only exhibit, she was a very useful 

 specimen of the breed, and the judges considered her worthy 



