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Itejport on the Horses UxldbiiGd at Windsor. 
logue of his Brookfield Stud; and in the description of his 
famous horse "Sultan," the contention put forth by Mr. Pease in 
the columns of the Field that "Sultan" was not a pure Cleveland 
receives confirmation, as several of his ancestors are entered in 
the books of the Cleveland Society as well as in that of the 
Yorkshire Coach-horse Society. Mr. Burdett-Coutts also re- 
marks "What, then, is 'Sultan'? "Why, he is simply the best 
type that can be produced by either breed or by both combined. 
And it is perfectly obvious that he has been produced by a con- 
stant crossing and intercrossing of both these breeds, which have 
no other title to separation from each other than their inability to 
produce anything like ' Sultan,' if that separation is maintained. 
The Cleveland bays, in what I may call their aboriginal form, 
are agricultural horses, with plenty of grand points in their 
frame, but with no elegance of ' turning,' and without action, 
and therefore totally unfitted to produce, from themselves alone, 
the big carriage-horse. The Yorkshire coach-horses have both 
the qualities above referred to, but they again, if kept to them- 
selves, will in a short time become high in the leg and light 
of bone, and consequently equally unfitted to draw the weight 
of a big barouche or a state coach." After reading this, one 
naturally asks one self why " Sultan " should be in either book ? 
By some critics it has been objected that the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society did wrong in not dividing Cleveland bays and 
Coach-horses ; but if the breeds must needs be mixed up as 
Mr. Burdett-Coutts asserts they are, the Society appears to 
have done the common-sense thing in declining to discriminate 
betwixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. At the same time it is 
but fair to say that many good judges are in favour of the two 
breeds being kept distinct at shows ; but whether it was 
altogether wise to have two separate books is a matter upon 
which, I gather, there are two opinions. 
Be this, however, as it may, there can be no doubt that Mr. 
Burdett-Coutts's "Sultan" — be he Cleveland bay, Yorkshire 
coach-horse, or a combination of the two — stood out in front of 
every other horse in his class by reason of his make and shape 
and truly magnificent action ; and he won for the third time in 
succession at the Royal. My own idea is that nine out of ten 
horses seen in the Coaching Classes fail in having such poor 
middle pieces ; but no such exception, in his present condition, 
can be taken to " Sultan," who has improved greatly about the 
loins during the last year. Mr. Kitching's " Primus," the 
winner in the Two-year-old Class, I take to be a very good 
specimen of the young Cleveland, and his merits were recog- 
nised later on, when he gained the distinction of being tha 
