56 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. 
but he moves smoothly, evenly, and with liberty 
from the shoulder and thighs. Stepping lightly 
and airily, yet with a long reach, he covers the 
ground swiftly and with ease. The shoulders 
vary as in other classes, but the better sort com- 
bine properly the slope of a muscular shoulder, 
which is required for freedom, and the form that 
is necessary to go well into the collar. They 
are as a rule hardy and thriving, and almost in- 
variably horses of a tractable and sweet disposition. 
Being bred to size 16.1 to 16.3 and upwards, they 
are liable to one failing unless care is taken in the 
selection of untainted sires and dams. I allude to 
the infirmity of roaring. How much of this is due 
to size, to unsound Thoroughbred strains, and how 
much to the tendency to force, overfeed, to 
fatten for shows, and to catch the eye of the dealer, 
it is hard to say. I do not suppose this tendency 
to defective respiration is greater than amongst 
other big horses, but it used to be by no means 
uncommon. Happily the evil is much less to-day, 
owing to the pains taken to avoid breeding from all 
animals that have a tendency to make a noise. 
The Yorkshire bay is a created type, whose home is 
the south of the North Riding of Vorkshire, and the 
East Riding, and has been formed by selection and 
crossing the Cleveland directly or indirectly with the 
Thoroughbred. ‘There is, as a rule, a great prepon- 
derance of Cleveland over Thoroughbred blood, and 
it shows itself so much that it is impossible to detect 
the difference between a light specimen of Cleveland 
and a strong specimen of the Yorkshire bay. 
No blood is more impressive than the Cleveland 
