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CLEVELAND BAYS. 373 



proclaiming at once the admixture of foreign blood. Adapted for the 

 plough, a heavy conveyance, and slow saddle work, the Cleveland Bay 

 is what the Americans term a " general utility " horse, and for artillery 

 purposes his docility, strength, and endurance admirably qualify him. 



The Cleveland Bay is better calculated for slow draught than for any 

 other purpose. For rapid work, his carcass would be too heavy for his 

 limbs, and he would be deficient in the elasticity requisite for quick action. 

 When, however, he is not pressed, he will support a long continuance 

 of fatigue, and has been known to travel the extraordinary distance of 

 sixty or seventy miles within twenty-four hours, with heavy loads, three 



Fig. 79. Cleveland Bay Stallion, "Freedom." 



The property ot Mr. Philip Charley, -Belmont, New South "Wales. 



or even four times a week, besides being occasionally employed on the 

 intermediate days. 1 There is, indeed, no better animal for farm labour ; 

 and the mares are the best species of stock for the double object of 

 work and breeding. 



It is right, however, to state, that this opinion is not shared in by 

 some authorities, who look upon the Cleveland Bay rather as a carriage 

 than a farm-horse. A dash of blood in a farm-horse is not to be 

 despised ; as remarked by Mr. Wilson, " One needs only to see how such 

 horses get along at turnip-hoeing, or with a heavy load in a one-horse 

 cart, to be convinced of their fitness for the general work of a farm." 



The origin of the Cleveland Bay, or Chapman Horse, as it appears 

 formerly to have been termed, is discussed by Mr. W. Scarth Dixon in 



1 See "The Agricultural Survey of Durham," p. 257. 



