LIGHTER CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSES. 603 



a Draught-mare, an animal will be produced partaking of the 

 properties of both parents, and which may be employed as a 

 Coach-Horse. But the results, as was before observed, of 

 such a mixture are uncertain, and the progeny will probably 

 be wanting in just proportion of parts. Many Carriage- 

 Horses are doubtless produced in this manner, but many of 

 them, if their history were told, have been found to be worth- 

 less. To rear this class of Horses, the same principles of 

 breeding should be applied as to the rearing of the Race- 

 Horse himself. A class of mares, as well as of stallions, 

 should be used having the properties sought for. It is in 

 this way only that we can form and perpetuate a true breed 

 in which the properties of the parents shall be reproduced in 

 their descendants. The district of Cleveland doubtless owed 

 the superiority which it continued to maintain in the produc- 

 tion of this beautiful race of horses to the possession of a de- 

 finite breed, formed not by accidental mixture, but by conti- 

 nued cultivation. 



The demand for these Horses has long been very great in 

 London and all the more opulent towns of the kingdom, and 

 the number carried abroad is large. The English purchasers 

 generally require the bay stock ; but the foreign dealers do 

 not reject what are called the vulgar colours, and therefore 

 carry away many horses which could not be sold in England 

 but at a low price. 



Although the Cleveland Bay appears to unite the blood of 

 the finer with that of the larger horses of the country, in the 

 degree sufficient to combine action with strength, yet modern 

 .taste has been continually refining upon this form of Coach- 

 Horse by adopting a lighter standard. The Cleveland Bay, 

 having arrived at a certain degree of breeding, can receive, 

 without the violence of too extreme a mixture, a still further 

 infusion of the blood of horses nearer to the Race-Horse. 

 Many of them are accordingly crossed by Hunters and even 

 Thoroughbred Horses, and thus another variety of Coach- 

 Horse is produced of lighter form and higher breeding ; and, 



