108 TYPES AND BREEDS 



nor the other. A good rule is never to mate a coach stallion with 

 mares larger than he is. 



CLEVELAND BAY 



The Cle^-eland Bay was an old-fashioned stagecoach horse, 

 occupying mnch the same position in England as the diligence 

 Percheron did in France, although never so popular nor so ex- 

 tensively bred. Like the latter, too, he was largely put out of 

 business by the locomotive. Unlike the Percheron, however, the 

 line of breeding of the Cleveland Bay, following the advent of 

 the railroad, resulted in such a dissipation of the blood as to 

 practically exterminate the breed. The original Cleveland Bay' 

 could not qualify as a harness or saddle horse, so the mares were 

 bred to Thoroughbred sires. In turn the best half-breds were 

 inter-bred, or remated with the Thoroughbred, and produced 

 either good hunters or carriage horses. 



YORKSHIRE COACH 



The Yorkshire Coach horse is the result of sucli breeding. 

 The Cleveland Bay takes its name from the Vale of Cleveland 

 in Yorkshire, the coach horse from the county itself. 



THE ORLOFF 



The Russian Orloff is not of much economic importance in' 

 America, but is of interest in that it is the only other light har- 

 ness breed beside our own, and from tlio fact tliat there is a 

 decided interest in American trotters in Kussia. The breed was 

 developed solely by Count Alexis Orloff Tschismensky, from 

 whom it takes its name. 



The Orloff foundation was laid in a quarter-bred Arab stal- 

 lion called Bars I, whose dam was a Dutch mare (another in- 

 stance of the trotting instinct tracing to the black trotter of 

 Friesland). The sire's dam was a Danish mare. The grandsire 

 was the gray Arab Smetanxa. This breeding was begun early 

 in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. 



