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The crest and withers are almost invariably good, the heaJ 

 bony, lean, and well set on. Ewe-necks are, probably, rarer ia 

 this £uuily than any other, unless it be the dray-horse, in which 

 it is never seen. 



The fknlts of shape to which the Cleveland bay is most liable are 

 narrowness of body, and flatness of the cannon and shank bones. 

 Their color is universally bay, rather on the yellow bay than on 

 the blood bay color, with black mane, tail and legs. 



They are sound, hardy, active, powerful horses, with excellent 

 capabilities for draft, and good endurance, so long as thej arc not 

 pushed beyond their speed, which may be estimated a* from six 

 to eight miles an hour, on a trot, or from ten to twelve — the latter 

 ^uite the maximum — on a gallop, under almost any weight. 



The large and more showy of these animals, of the tallest and 

 heaviest type, were the favorite coach horses of their day ; the 

 more springy and lightly built, of equal height were the hunters, 

 in the di ys when the fox was hunted by his drag, unkenneled, 

 and run half a dozen hours or more, before he.'was either earthed or 

 worn out and worried to death. Then the shorter, lower, and more 

 closely ribbed up were the road hacknc a style Ox horse unhappily 

 now almost extinct, and having unequally substituted in its place a 

 wretched, weedy, half-bred or three-quarters-bred beast, fit neither 

 to go the pace with a wei^^hu r>n. its back, nor to last the time. 



From these Cleveland Bays^ hjwev^r, though in their pure 

 state nearly extinct, a very superior animal has descended, which, 

 after sev ri.1 steps and gradations, has settled down into a com- 

 mon family, as ths farm horse, and ri."^g or driving horse of the 

 farmers, has a'lOit two crosses, more or less, of blood on the 

 original Clcvv land stock 



Th3 fir.^t gra atiin when pace became a desideratum, was the 

 stinting O-' the bci. Clevelanf" Bay mares to good thorough-bred 

 horses, with a view to the progeny turning out hunters, xoop 

 horses, or, in th . last resort, stage-coach horses, or, as thej w re 

 termed, machines. The most promising of these well bred coif - 

 were kept as stallions ; and mares of the same type, with their 

 dams, stinted to them produced the improved carrriage horse ol 

 fifty years ago. 



