y8 LIGHT HORSES: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



Book we find many pedigrees like the following. Paulinus, 

 sire Necromancer (S.B), dam by Woldsman (S.B.), granddam 

 by Screveton (S.B.), great granddam by Grog (S.B.). Now, 

 although all the horses whose names are mentioned in this 

 pedigree are to be found in the Stud Book Paulinus is con- 

 spicuous by his absence, so the presumption is that his fourth 

 dam would be a Cleveland Bay. 



The difficulty of tracing the history of the earlier Coach 

 Horses is also considerably enhanced by so many of them 

 being named after thoroughbred horses, and, indeed, not- 

 withstanding the fact that the breed is of much more recent 

 date than the Cleveland Bay, its early history is enveloped in 

 quite as much obscurity. Records do not seem to have been 

 carefully kept, and there appears to be considerable confu- 

 sion respecting some of the older pedigrees. For many 

 years Coach Horses contained a very large admixture of 

 the thoroughbred, for example, Quintessence who was foaled 

 in 1830 had five top crosses of the thoroughbred, and upwards 

 of thirty years later, Prince Arthur, the winner of the first 

 prize at the Yorkshire Show, had two top crosses of the 

 thoroughbred. 



As is the case with Cleveland Bays the Yorkshire Coach 

 Horses are principally bred by farmers who keep two or three 

 mares, seldom more than half-a-dozen, the heavier of which 

 they work on the light land. Large studs are the exception, 

 but in the neighbourhood of York and Selby, as well as in 

 Howdenshire, there are a few men who breed and graze Coach 

 Horses rather extensively. These gentlemen seldom attempt 

 to cross their Coaching mares with thoroughbred horses unless 

 it is with the object of breeding carriage horses for the 

 London market, a very lucrative branch of the business of 

 horse breeding, and one which obtains largely in the East 

 Riding. It must not be imagined, however, that the thorough, 

 bred sire is generally resorted to when the breeding of London 

 carriage horses is the object aimed at. Coaching stallions are 

 most frequently used, as there is then the chance of breeding 



