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LIGHT HORSES : BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



public. This was greatly to be desired in the interests of both 

 breeds, and it is a source of satisfaction to all concerned that 

 the Yorkshire Agricultural Society has at last recognised that 

 the breeds do exist as distinctly as they did in the earlier 

 years of the century, and that that recognition took a liberal 

 form. The Royal Agricultural Society have also a similar 

 recognition of the two breeds under consideration. It would 

 be little short of a national calamity were the two breeds to 

 be merged in one, viz., in that of the Coach Horse. The loss 

 of the Cleveland Bay as a foundation for breeding is one that 

 could never be replaced ; and the handsome and elegant Coach 

 Horse or carriage horse is one we could ill do without. This 

 recognition of the leading agricultural societies means much, 

 therefore ; it is, as it were, a new point of departure for the 

 two breeds from which they will attain to fresh excellencies 

 and wider popularity. 



