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Horse-breeding for Profit. 
Owing to the scarcity of Cleveland mares, and the demand for 
the pure stock, this cross is comparatively rare, and from my own 
experience I should say the average Yorkshire hunter is as a 
rule slightly inferior to the Irish. 
There is little doubt that the qualities of endurance in the 
Irish hunter are due in no small degree to the fact that their 
good sires are horses that have been tried themselves, and have 
been raced and hardened with severe work. It is notorious 
that some of the most successful Irish sires have been regular 
slaves, and in some instances have been driven to a race meeting, 
taken out, and after running and winning, ti’otted home ten 
Irish miles with a car laden with the rejoicing family and 
friends of the owner ! A hunting brood-mare should be a good 
huntress, able to gallop and stay all day, not old, with constitu- 
tion, limbs, and quality, her height about sixteen hands, and 
well timbered below the knee. If such a mare is cai'efully 
mated and her foal done well to, there will seldom be dis- 
appointment. 
Yet, after all, it is in my humble judgment the harness 
horse that can be bred with the minimum of risk and a certainty 
of profit. The conditions laid down at the commencement of 
this paper are here best fulfilled ; but before attempting to 
demonstrate this it is worth while, in passing, to allude to 
Cleveland Bays — the breed that has formed the foundation of 
the reputation of Yorkshire breeds. It is needless to point out 
that the breeding of pure Clevelands is profitable, when it is 
well known that even colt foals at foot are bought up annually 
throughout Cleveland for the American and foreign market at 
prices varying from 30/. to GO/, apiece ; but it is worth while to 
consider why the Americans ransack this country for them. It 
is notorious that the horses we import by thousands are carriage 
horses from Germany, America, and Normandy, and we have 
supplied these countries 'with the sires and often the mares that 
enable them to fill the London dealers’ yards with high-priced 
carriage horses. I made a car’eful inspection of the classes of 
Karrossiers at the great show at Berlin in 1889, and found 
that the Cleveland had given them their superb Oldenburg and 
other breeds. There is one family in Cleveland who for fifty 
years have exported every mare of the Cleveland breed they 
have bred to one farm in Holland. The Cleveland’s value to 
the breeder over all other breeds is that it can be absolutely relied 
on for transmitting its beautiful and distinctive characteristics to 
its progeny, and above all, its uniformity of colour and type, 
elements of the greatest importance in breeding carriage-horses. 
Here are some American opinions : — 
