2l8 MANAGEMENT, AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



The early origin of the Suffolk draft horse. — While 

 exact authentic data is wanting, it is believed that, in 

 purity of blood this breed surpasses any other breed in 

 Great Britain. As early as 1700 much attention was 

 given to improving the native horses of Suffolk and Essex 

 counties by better care and management. For almost a 

 century there is no reliable data of the introduction of 

 foreign blood. While it is sometimes stated that horses 

 from Normandy played an important part in the forma- 

 tion of the breed, no positive information exists on this 

 point, and the evidence indicates that there was little or 

 no admixture of outside blood until well toward the close 

 of the eighteenth century. 



Crisp's Horse of Ufford (404), the Suffolk foundation. 



— All pedigrees of the breed that are recorded in the stud 

 book of either England or America trace to the Crisp 

 Horse (404). He was owned by T. Crisp of Ufford, 

 Sussex; was born in 1768, and by an unknown sire. He 

 stood 15.2 hands high, was of a light chestnut color and 

 active. The Crisp Horse proved a remarkable breeder, 

 as is shown by a tabulation in the first volume of the 

 Suffolk Horse Stud Book, which includes over 700 of his 

 descendants in 15 generations, the first five of which cover 

 a period of almost thirty years and brings the horses. to 

 the starting point of the pedigrees of Suffolk horses, as 

 recorded in the stud book, though little is known of the 

 dams previous to this time. The Crisp Horse is the sire 

 of five recorded offspring, but his line is represented 

 through Glud's Horse (587), born about 1775 and died at 

 Laxfield in 1783. He stood about 16 hands high, of a 

 beautiful chestnut color and was well boned and free from 

 blemishes. 



Smith's Horse (mo), born In 1799, and a great 

 grandson of Glud's Horse (587), is the next most noted 

 animal in the Crisp Horse's descent and the one through 

 which all of our present-day Suffolks trace. He is 

 described as a choice specimen of the breed in his day, 



