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in coaching times and were especially prized for use in fours and 

 sixes on the public coach. They were contemporary with the 

 Hackney and appear to have sprung from the same ancestry, but 

 became of a somewhat different type on account of a different use. 

 While the Hackney was the private gentleman's horse of all work, 

 the Cleveland was the public horse, largely used for post work. In 



CLEVELAND BAY 

 breeding there is evidence that a Scandinavian cross was early 

 used upon the agricultural horses of England, and that the resultant 

 old " Chapman " horse of Yorkshire was well known two or three 

 centuries ago. Thoroughbred crosses were also used to some 

 extent, increasing the speed and road capacity of the breed. The 

 product of these crosses was an exceedmgly popular and useful class 

 of horses, which were well known and in general use in coaching 

 times. With the advent of railroads the use of these horses was 

 gradually taken away until the breed was thought to be lost. Of 

 late a determined effort to resuscitate the Cleveland Bay has borne 

 fruit and its improvement has been well received. 



When a horse is frightened do not add to his fright hy using the whip. 



