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Vol. XLIV. No. 1840 
NEW YORK, MAY 2, 1885 
PRICE HTVB CENTS 
$2.00 PER TSAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year ms. by the Rural New-Yorker in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
tinct breed, early in the present century. 0£ 
late years they have become generally ac¬ 
knowledged to be a distinct breed, transmit¬ 
ting certain qualities for which they are noted 
to a remarkable degree. As a distinct class, 
they have been awarded premiums and spec¬ 
ial prizes in Englaud at the Royal and great 
Yorkshire Shows, as well as in the lesser shows 
of the North Riding and Cleveland districts 
During the past season a stud book of this 
breed has been established in England. They 
are essentially coach horses and were celebra¬ 
ted iu England for this purpose before the days 
of railroads. They combine a large develop¬ 
ment of bone, muscle and sinew with the nec¬ 
dinary distance of 00 or 70 miles within 34 
hours, with heavy loads, three, and even four 
times a week, besides being employed during 
the intermediate days. There is, indeed, no 
better animat for farm labor, and the mares 
are the best species of stock for the doubel 
purpose of work and breeding. 
In this country they are fast coming into 
favor. Iowa has recognized them as possess¬ 
ing superior worth for the improvement of 
the horses of that State, and has assigned 
them, as they deserve, a place as a special 
class at the State Fair. Tne N. Y. State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society last season, for the first 
time made a class for coach horses, as did the 
essary size, action and endurance. A strong 
loin, short back, long quarters, and ex¬ 
cellent feet adapt them to rapid work on hard 
roads. They are from 10 to 17 hands high, 
and weigh from 1,300 to 1,500 pounds, being 
of a rich bay color, kind and pleasant in 
disposition, and constituting a horse well calcu¬ 
lated to draw the plow or family carriage. 
“They are much used in the north,” says 
Youatt, “for agricultural purposes, and are 
there considered quicker in step, more handy, 
and, in all respects, more useful than the 
heavier cart horse of the south.” 
They will support a continuance of fatigue, 
and have been known to travel the extraor¬ 
orsfmau 
THE CLEVELAND BAY COACHING 
STALLION BARONET. 
« HK]name Cleveland Bay was 
given this breed of horses on 
account of their unifora (bay) 
color and their having origin¬ 
ated in the district of Cleve¬ 
land, Yorkshire, England. 
Their early higtory is some what 
obscure, but. from all accounts, 
they were classed as a family, if not as a dis¬ 
v- ' • . 
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CLEVELAND BAY STALLION BARONET 
(From a Photograph.) Fig. 156 
