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bones and good quarters — such as the noble animal Emperor, 

 lately imported by Mr. Rives into Virginia, whose figure stands 

 at the head of this paper, and who may be set down as a per- 

 fect type of the highest class of improved Cleveland Bay — ^been 

 put to well-selected mares, of the right breed and of the right 

 formation, he would not have been accused of deteriorating the 

 breed of horses, but would have undoubtedly given size, but not 

 size without substance, height without bone, much less length 

 without proportion. 



In some portions of the country, and particularly in those 

 portions, where there is evidence, in the character of the now 

 existing horse-stock, that there has been an original strain of 

 Cleveland Bay blood, subsequently crossed with other bloods, 

 such as the Canadian and tlie thoroughbred — the latter remote- 

 ly — as I think is the case in the State of Yermont, where I con- 

 ceive the short, compact stocky Morgans to be the result of 

 such an intermixture, I do not doubt that the services of such 

 a Cleveland Bay stallion as Emperor, put to long, roomy, well 

 quartered and well-proportioned mares of the Morgan breed, 

 would be of incalculable beneht. I have no doubt that in the 

 first generation such a horse would produce admirable light 

 team horses of great show and substance, suitable for express 

 wagons and the hke, and that the mares bred to thoroughbred 

 horses of the right kind — selected for bone, compactness, and 

 substance — would give in the first cross carriage-horses, and in 

 the second trotters, parade horses, or cavalry horses, of the 

 highest possible caste and form. I doubt, that without some 

 such cross, giving increased size, bone, and room to the Morgan, 

 or light Yermont, road mares, extensively crossing with thorough- 

 breds would not succeed in the first instance, unless from the 

 very cream of the largest mares, and from a horse of singu- 

 larly well-selected points and characteristics of bone, form, and 

 last not least, blood of some strain, such as those of Orville, 

 Comus, Woodpecker, Lottery, Humphrey Clinker, or our own 

 Messenger, famous for success in producing hunters or road- 

 sters. 



Such a horse as Priam, whatever may be said of his racer- 

 getting qualities, would be fatal to a line of roadsters, hunters, 

 or chargers, from the fatal tying in of his knees. 



