32 OLD AND NEW SUFPOLKS. 



abroad in the farm yards, with sheds, throughout the winter, a practice still 

 subsisting- in Suffolk. They were speedy walkers and trotters ; and, beyond all 

 question, whether from form or constant training, the truest and most powerful 

 drawers in the world. They were the only race of horses which would, collectively, 

 draw repeated dead pulls ; namely, draw pull after pull, and down upon their 

 knees, against a live, or any body which they felt could not be moved, to the 

 tune of JUP Ji ! ! and the crack of the whip, (once familiar but abominable sounds, 

 which even now vibrate upon our auditory nerves), as long- as nature supplied the 

 power, and would renew the same exertions to the end of the chapter. Many of 

 the most valuable teams of horses, were torn to pieces and ruined, in former days, by 

 the rage which prevailed among both masters and servants, for making drawing 

 matches, and betting upon this kind of exertion. Every proprietor of cart horses 

 should be aware of the following important points, and caution their servants 

 thereon ; very few horses either can, or will draw dead pulls, although they may 

 )>e otherwise the most useful and the truest collared horses, at any weight or exer- 

 tion which they find within their power ; beyond that point, and a good horse 

 knows it well, whipping 1 and abuse only serve to make the horse gib, to daunt his 

 courage, and, most probably, to induce secret strains in the loins. 



The old Suffolk* fetched high prices; and we recollect a Stallion of that breed, 

 about fifteen hands three inches high, valued at one hundred guineas. The new 

 or present breed, inheriting the fame of the old, and being of larger size and more 

 sightly figure, ha\e been more generally sought. At a sale in Suffolk, in 1813, 

 attended by all the rank and property in the neighbourhood, a mare with a foal at 

 her foot, sold for 12 1/. 4s. ; a three-year old filly for 85 /. Is. ; a one-eyed mare for 

 98/. 1 1.s\ ; and the whole fifty mares, geldings, and foals, produced a total amount 

 of 22631. 13. Qd. The rage for great performances in drawing with their cart 

 horses, in Suffolk, was in the wane half a century ago ; and the desire succeeded 

 simultaneously, of changing the form of their horses. This was gradually, at 

 length, universally effected, by crossing with Yorkshire half and three-part bred 

 stallions, such as are used to get Coach Horses. Hence the high forehand of the 

 present Suffolk horse, his larger size and superior figure above the old. 



