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great exertions in the coal and lime season. The 

 weights carried, distance travelled, and the time it is 

 performed in for several weeks together are certain 

 proofs of their activity, strength, and hardiness. 

 Their colour is mostly bay, and their form is such 

 that the mares, put to a full-blood stallion, breed 

 excellent hunters and saddle-horses, and, to a half- 

 blood horse, capital coachers or carriage-horses." 



A little earlier than this, in 1788, in Marshall's 

 "Yorkshire," the author says — ^" The Vale, the Wolds, 

 the H older ness, probably employ a hundred thorough- 

 bred stallions. One hundred mares are considered 

 the full complement for one horse ; some of them, 

 perhaps, do not get fifty. On this calculation there 

 are from five to ten thousand horses bred between 

 the Eastern Wolds and the H umber. 



" During the last twenty years some capital 

 hunters have been bred in Yorkshire. This change 

 was principally effected by one horse, Jalap, a full- 

 bred horse, whose pedigree and performances are 

 well-known upon the turf. He is still living, and, 

 what is remarkable, last season, at the age of thirty, 

 covered several mares. His leap, five guineas each 

 for blood mares, two guineas each for ' Chapman's 

 mares.' * 



" Almost everything depends upon the mare — ■ 

 What are a few guineas in the first purchase of a 

 good mare ? And what are a few days ploughing, 



* The horse used by packmen and travellers was In the North of England 

 called the " Chapman " horse, and in the South the " Pack " horse. 



