190 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
if kept to themselves, will in a very short time be- 
come high on the leg and light of bone, and con- 
sequently equally unfitted to draw the weight of a 
big barouche or a state coach.” What is wanted, he 
goes on to say, is “the big harness horse, standing 
from 16 hands to 16.2 in height, with the bone and 
shortness of leg, the depth and grandeur of frame, 
which are in the Cleveland, and are not in the York- 
shire coach horse; with the quality, elegance, and 
action which are in the Yorkshire coach horse, and 
not in the Cleveland; and with the ‘long, elegant 
top line,’ which is only produced by a combination of 
both.” 
Both the Cleveland bays and the Yorkshire coach 
horses are moderately high steppers, and usually 
incapable of a really fast trot. 
A third family of carriage horses is that of the 
hackneys, whose stud-book, like the others just men- 
tioned, is a very modern one, dating from 1882. Their 
origin is remotely the same as that of the Cleveland 
bays and the Yorkshire coach horses, — a mixture 
of thoroughbred and cart horse; but in the hackney 
farnily there is an intermediate strain, namely, that 
of the old Norfolk trotter, a fast-trotting, plain, ser- 
viceable, moderate-sized beast, that had a great repu- 
tation in his day, and from which, in part, many of 
our own trotters are descended. The best hackneys 
now extant trace back almost invariably to one partic- 
ular horse, called Marshland Shales, who was foaled 
in 1802. He stood 14.3, was of a dun color, and is 
said to have descended from the great race horse 
Eclipse. George Borrow, in a passage of “ Lavengro,” 
which I venture to quote here, although it is a familiar 
