400 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



The charger which has been in many battle-fields 

 retains as long as he lives a remembrance of his past 

 services, which is thus beautifully expressed in '* The 

 Pleasures of Memory," one of the finest didactic poems 

 in our language : — 



" And when the drum beats briskly in the gale, 

 The war-worn courser charges at the sound, 

 And with young vigour wheels the pasture ground.'* 



THE COACH-HORSE. 



The better kind of coach-horses owe their origin 

 to the Cleveland bays ; the greatest attention being 

 paid to breeding them in Yorkshire, Durham, and 

 Northumberland. Some fine horses of this kind have 

 also been bred in Lincolnshire. The most useful are 

 those which are propagated by a cross of the Cleve- 

 land mare, with a three-fourth or thoroughbred horse 

 of sufficient substance and height. They have a fine 

 knee action, lift their feet high, which gives grandeur 

 to their figure and paces ; the head is generally well 

 carried, and with a beautifully elevated crest. 



THE CLEVELAND BAYS. 



This fine breed emanated from Cleveland, in 

 Yorkshire, but are now bred in Northumberland and 

 Durham. They are of a superior size and of a good 

 form, with a strength and activity surpassing most 

 other horses. They are chiefly distinguished by their 

 bay colour. Mares of this breed, with full-blood 

 stallions, produce excellent hunters and roadsters ; and 

 with half-bred stallions, an offspring very suitable for 

 farm purposes, particularly that of ploughing. 



