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worst faults, and also to the patronage and encourage- 
ment this breed has had from the Royal Agricultural 
and other societies. Their chestnut colour has now 
been fixed, and it is much more rare to find bays 
and incorrect colouring than formerly. There is a 
kinship between bay and chestnut, and in the few 
instances where there has been a variation from the 
bay of the Cleveland, the colour has almost invariably 
been chestnut. 
I know of one chestnut Cleveland mare, but if 
her legs were blacked she would be a golden bay, 
and all her foals have been true bays. There 
appears to be a greater tendency among the Suffolks 
to throw bays than for any other breeds to throw 
chestnuts, but these questions, however interesting, 
are a little foreign to our present subject. The size 
of the Suffolk has been increased, and that without 
any loss of its distinctive cobby mould, perhaps the 
most attractive characteristic of the breed. Their 
feet, always their worst point, are much more satis- 
factory than of old; and this is well, for it has been 
the shallow, brittle feet of the Suffolks, unfitting them 
for travelling on rough and hard roads, that has 
prevented these handsome animals from gaining a 
much higher position in the public estimation than 
they have hitherto occupied. There is something 
very fine and impressive in seeing a team of these 
grand-looking, shining chestnuts drawing their load, 
each with an air of cocky consciousness of his neat 
appearance in his whole carriage and bearing, whilst 
the action of his cleanly limbs is often admirable. 
As a mere spectacle nothing is more imposing than 
a well-filled class of Suffolk Punches, in all their 
