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Chas. A. Snyder, a breeder in Illinois, says : — 
In regard to the Cleveland Bay, I think they are the best horses in 
America to-day. 
Speaking of a sire be says : — 
I guarantee a man a hay colt or no pay, I don’t care "what the colour of 
the dam is. They are the finest dispositioned horses there are in the world ; 
they are the most uniform breeders, and best general purpose horse in 
America. 
Messrs. A. & J. Derwent, in the same State, declare them 
the best breed of any they have ever raised ; in three years they 
had by their Cleveland sire but one colt not bay, and he was oflf 
a white mare. 
The greatest trouble is that we cannot keep our colts until they mature ; 
buyers won’t let us. They are taking the lead of any other breed here 
with us. 
Ed. Dodgers, Upper Alton, 111., states : — 
There is great uniformity in the get of my Cleveland horse : can pick out 
every colt of his amongst other breeds . . . the past season had good bay 
colts from grey and sorrel mares. 
F. Hand, Pontiac, 111., writes : — 
The Cleveland Bay horse I bought from you has proved himself to be a 
first-class breeder, both as to style, colour, and form ; also a very sure foal 
getter. We have had mares of all colours, but he colours all of his colts bay 
or brown. 
John W. Sanner, Prairie Home, 111., writes : — 
My opinion of the Cleveland Bay is very exalted, and I can base same 
on well-founded grounds, from the fact that I have made this branch of the 
horse family a special study for the last three years, and the more I learn 
of the Cleveland Bay, the better I like him. As a general and special 
purpose animal, he stands to-day without an equal — a general purpose 
horse, because he is adapted to all kind of work, from the road to the 
plough. No horse exists, in my opinion, that has as much strength to the 
weight of the animal as the Boyal Bay, and when this is said it covers a 
great deal of ground, when we think of how many difi'erent kinds of horses 
there are — a special purpose horse, because tbeir uniformity of breeding is 
such a marked characteristic, there being no trouble to find matched teams 
where the bays are bred to any extent. Different styled mares will bring 
colts from a Cleveland Bay that look so much alike that a casual observer 
cannot tell one from another. As regards colour, my experience has been 
very gratifying indeed ; in several instances where mares have been black, 
grey, sorrel, white, and dun, the colts have all been good bays. My further 
opinion is, the Cleveland Bay is the best horse on earth. 
Mr. George A. Wiley, California, writes : — 
We have a lot of colts from Duke of Wenlock out of all kinds of mares 
— native, half Norman and mustangs — and there is not a poor colt in the 
entire lot. For size, colour, symmetrical form, beauty, style, and finish, I 
never saw their equal. The mares we bred last season were mostly half 
