48 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. 
golden splendour, uniformity in colour, and stamp in 
the show-ring ; and in spite of north-country pre- 
judice against this breed, I still incline to the opinion 
that they have valuable qualities which may yet 
bring them to the fore at home, as they have in 
many countries abroad. 
The Suffolk is noted for his courage at a dead 
pull, and will go down on his knees to move his 
load in a way that few other horses will. 
I feel convinced that, for a certain class of half- 
bred stock, the Suffolk would form a much superior 
basis for crossing than the ordinary cart mare, and 
I would recommend farmers who would not patronise 
a lighter farm mare (such as the Cleveland or Chap- 
man, which I exclude from the ordinary category of 
carting breeds) to satisfy themselves as to the merits 
or demerits of the Suffolk. Without compromising my 
expressed conviction that carting blood is a noxious 
thing in the carriage horse as in the hunter, I believe 
that, if such blood is to be used, the evils of the 
cross will be less prominent in the produce of the 
active Suffolk mare to Blood, or Coaching, or Hackney, 
than in that of any other cart mare. Such a mare will 
probably throw foals of a uniform colour, chestnuts 
or bays, enabling the breeder to turn out match pairs. 
They should have good looks, good action, and fine, 
clean legs, though probably betraying their origin in 
coarseness of the quarter and elsewhere. If the sire 
is carefully selected, the produce of such a mare 
should not lack altogether the wear-and-tear qualities 
and sustained vigour in quick work that are so im- 
portant in the harness horse, trooper, and general 
half-bred. I cannot bring myself to commend breed- 
