CARRIAGE HORSES AND COBS, 189 
Not long ago, an an English agricultural journal in- 
quired, with much feeling and with less attention to 
grammar, “ When royalty or nobility wants a pair of 
upstanding London carriage horses, where goes the 
thousand guineas that hardly fetches them?” “Not,” 
answering its own question, “to the struggling Eng- 
lish occupier, but to the broad expanses of the Conti- 
nent.” Even the great job-masters of London (two 
of whom supply no less than five hundred pairs of 
carriage horses each to their customers, not counting 
single brougham and victoria horses) had recourse at 
one time to the Flemish horses. They were cheap 
and good-looking, but so washy and soft, so deficient 
in bone and endurance, so defective in those very 
points which Gervase Markham condemned in them 
two hundred years before, that, after a few years’ 
trial, they were commonly given up by the job- 
masters. 
Closely allied to the Cleveland bays are the York- 
shire coach horses. Separate stud-books are main- 
tained in England for these families, although in 
many instances the same animal is recorded in both 
books, whereas in this country one compilation of 
pedigrees does service for both strains. The differ- 
ences between them are thus stated by Mr. Burdett- 
Coutts : — 
“The Cleveland bays, in what I may call their 
aboriginal form, are agricultural horses, with plenty 
of grand points in their frame, but with no elegance 
of ‘turning,’ and without any action, and therefore 
totally unfitted to produce from themselves alone the 
big carriage horse. The Yorkshire coach horses have 
both the qualities above referred to, but they, again, 
