Iv CLEVELAND AND YORKSHIRE BAY 55 
pairs of bays and browns at any price in England, 
and have to scour the Continent and America to 
supply their customers. The foreign horse is often 
a fine horse in appearance, of noble mien, with fine 
quality and action, the head nicely set and well 
carried on an arching crest; but generally he is a 
soft horse, and goes to pieces under hard, fast work. 
The American carriage horses, on the other hand, 
have a reputation for wear-and-tear qualities, though 
as a rule they are not so good-looking as the 
foreigners. Now at home we can raise a horse that 
is better looking, is a freer goer, and that can wear 
all foreign horses down. 
The finest carriage horse in the world is the 
high-class Yorkshire bay, combining: as he does the 
quality and grace of the Thoroughbred with the 
strength, colour, and beauty of form of the Cleve- 
land. He is an ideal of all that is magnificent and 
useful in the carriage horse. His colour is a rich, 
shining bay, his coat is as bright, fine, glossy, and 
iridescent as that of the racehorse; his legs, mane, 
and tail are raven black, setting off the splendour of 
his golden colour. He is strong and lengthy, he 
stands over a great deal of ground, his top has the 
flowing lines of the Cleveland back and level quarter, 
his ribs are well sprung, he carries his neat head and 
arched crest, as well as his high-set tail, with all the 
pride and grace of an Arab, and no bearing rein is 
needed to make him bend. At rest and in action 
he is a picture of stateliness. There may be other 
breeds that lift the knee higher, but the movement 
of the Yorkshire bay is fine and free; it is not a 
mere snapping of the knee and flexing of the hock, 
