COACH HORSES. 



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confess to being unable to quite understand where Cleveland Bays and 

 Yorkshire Coach Horses begin and end. 



" The Cleveland Bays, in what I may call their aboriginal form, are 

 agricultural horses, with plenty of grand points in their frame, but with 

 no elegance of ' turning,' and without action, and therefore totally 

 unfitted to produce, from themselves alone, the big carriage-horse. 

 The Yorkshire Coach Horses have both the qualities above referred to, 

 but they again, if kept to themselves, will in a short time become high 

 in the leg and light of bone, and consequently equally unfitted to draw 

 the weight of a big barouche or a state coach. 



" Before dismissing the Cleveland Bays and Yorkshire Coach Horses 



Fig. 81. Yorkshire Coach Mare, "Lily." 



it is somewhat curious to note that nowhere, so far as I have been able 

 to ascertain, is any mention made in coaching history of either of these 

 breeds, not even in connection with the north roads. We find notices 

 of blacks, greys, and chestnuts, which obviously could be no relations 

 to the Cleveland Baj', and we are told of the thoroughbred, or nearly 

 thoroughbred, teams which were employed on certain fast stages. But 

 of the breeds under notice we hear nothing, which is certainly a curious 

 circumstance, because one would think that the northern contractors 

 would have largely made use of a breed which has always stood high 

 in the affection of Yorkshiremen." 



THE HACKNEY. The best and most complete account of the de- 

 velopment of the modern Hackney Horse is that given by Mr. Henry 

 F. Euren, in the Hackney Stud-Book (Vol. I., 1884). It appears that 



