126 CLEVELAND BAY. 



the last fifteen or twenty years for well-matched and stylish 

 carriage teams, again directed attention to the Cleveland Bay 

 as most likely to supply such horses as were demanded. The 

 purchase of a number of them in the last few years by Ameri- 

 cans has led the English breeders to take steps to revive their 

 breeding in that country, and an association has been formed 

 issuing a stud book in which all horses of the breed deemed 

 worthy are to be registered. 



The Cleveland Bay, as now bred, is a horse of sixteen to 

 sixteen and three-quarters hands high and weighs from 1,300 

 to 1,500 pounds. In color they are generally bay with black 

 points, but sometimes dappled bay with occasional browns and 

 dappled browns, always with black points. Originally they 

 were nearly universally bay in color, and were said to be as 

 near alike in color as Devon cattle ; but the use of the thor- 

 oughbred stallions has introduced somewhat of a change in 

 this respect. They should, however, be free from white mark- 

 ings, always with black points and of one of the colors men- 

 tioned above. , 



The head should be fine, the eyes large and prominent, the 

 ears well apart and fine, the neck well arched and set on 

 strong, oblique shoulders ; the chest deep, rather than broad, 

 partaking more of the shape of the race-horse than of the 

 draft ; the back short, quarters long and well-rounded ; the legs 

 clean, strong, symmetrical ; and the feet always perfect. 



Sanders, in his excellent work entitled "Horse Breeding," 

 published in 1885, speaks of the Cleveland Bay of to-day as 

 being created anew, as was the breed when it was formerly 

 considered a breed, by the mingling of the blood of the 

 thoroughbred race-horse with that of the large bay mares 

 •of Yorkshire ; and that the old Cleveland Bay has become ex- 

 tinct as a breed. Yet he says : " I am free to admit that there 

 is still much stock remaining in that region possessing the old 

 Cleveland characteristics, and perhaps much of the blood that 

 formerly belonged to this breed, and it is evident that the same 

 course of breeding which originally formed the breed might 



