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sbdw breeding. It is a horse showing blood and breeding, witli 

 lofty crest, magnificient withers, round barrelled, and clean 

 limbed, a coat like satin, and a head of excellent proportions. 

 Colts from such a horse out of large, roomy mares of good style, 

 will always sell for high prices. When you find such a stallion 

 do not be afraid to buy, he will pay, and his foals will pay fo» 

 their feed and training. 



The old fashioned horse of this race, the Cleveland bay, is ex» 

 tinct and gone. The present form is the result of crosses with 

 staunch thoroughbreds, giving better form throughout, greater 

 speed and good style. We consider them as among the very best 

 from which to breed stylish animals from proper mares. Horsea 

 that may do the ordinary farm w irk until six years past, and 

 then be sold at good prices for stylish omnibus, express, light 

 draft, and carriage horses in our cities. Persons who have 

 large, well built mares, wishing to breed colts that shall have 

 size enough for any farm or road work ; that will breed to uni- 

 form color, so that they may be easily matched ; that will have 

 style — not that of the blood horse, or ight driving, or trotting 

 horse — will do well to investigate the characteristics of the Cleve- 

 land bays. Canada has acquired a high reputation for stylish, 

 well matched coach horses. It is founded in a great measure 

 upon crosses produced by breeding th i modern Cleveland bays 

 upon large, handsome mares of moro < -■ less brooding. 



Such horses if properly cared for will do ei^ht or nir.e miles 

 an hour, in harness, and under the saddle may be pushed up to 

 twelve miles an hour ; are activ i in all +heir gaits, tractable, 

 easily managed, intelligent, fast walke^-s, ilways ready for their 

 feed, and as eager at labor, ".s they ar^ k^ id and intelligent ev«y 

 where. The late Henry William Herbert, a thorough horseman, 

 an accurate judge of horseflesh, and c, finished writer, in his vol- 

 uminous work, " The Horso o ' America," thus describes the 

 original Cleveland bay^ nd also ihe i^-aproved horse of his 

 time : " The Clevela id bay in its natural and unmixed form, is a 

 tall, po^erfullybuUt, bony animal, averaging, I should say, fif- 

 teen hands three inches in height, rarely foiling short of fifteen 

 tud a half or exceeding sixteen and a half hands. 



