THE HEAVY-HARNESS BREEDS OF HORSES 75 
action is not specially high, but it is the kind for getting 
over the ground. In color he is bay — either light or 
dark — with | black 
legs clear of hair; 
and black, zebra-like 
stripes on the arm and 
above the hocks are 
sometimes” seen. 
These are known as 
the black points and 
are supposed to de- 
note special purity of 
breeding. White, 
save a small star or a 
few white hairs in the 
ra 
re SBL 
Fic. 12.— Cleveland Bay stallion. 
heel, is not admissible, a blaze or white foot proclaiming 
at once the admixture of foreign blood’? (Figs. 12, 
Fic. 13. — Cleveland Bay mare. 
13). Anearly writer? 
makes the following 
comment on the old 
stamp of Cleveland 
Bay, just about the 
time the Thorough- 
bred was to be used 
most liberally : “ Very 
many of the Cleve- 
land horses are disfig- 
ured by having large 
heads and Roman 
noses; and it is only 
when these parts are, to a certain extent, concealed by 
1 Wallace, Farm Live Stock of Great Britain. 
2 John Burke, Royal Agricultural Society Report, Vol. V, 1844. 
