Identifier: cu31924053956946 (find matches)
Title: The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Robert Patrick, 1857- ed
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London, The Gresham publishing company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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longs to a variety which is as widelybred as formerly. This observation unfortunatelyapplies to other breeds of harness horses, thedemand for which has of recent years been ininverse ratio to the popularity of the ubiqui-Cous motor car; but on the other hand there isconsolation to be derived by the horse breederfrom the knowledge that there are certain dutieswhich it is impossible for the motor to fulfil,but for which the equine race are perfectly quali-fied. It is impossible, for instance, to conceivelong lines of motor landaus slowly paradingHyde Park on a summer afternoon during theheight of the London season, or a procession ofsuch vehicles taking part in such ceremonies asthe opening of Parliament by His Majesty theKing. The horse, however, adds immeasurablyto the pioturesqueness of such functions, andnone more so than the Cleveland Bay, a varietywhich by its stature and imposing appearanceis admirably adapted to adorn the equipages ofthe wealthy. The position now occupied by the
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Cleveland Bay 227 breed and the consideration of its conformationand peculiarities may be deferred until some, light has been thrown upon its origin and his-tory, for the Cleveland is a horse which wasextremely valued by the British public in daysgone by; and most probably, let it be added,more prosperous times may yet be in storefor a thoroughly reliable and very handsomemember of the equine race. As in the case of most, if not all, of the varie-ties of British horse, a certain amount of dubietyovershadows the origin of the Cleveland Bay.At the same time it is as certain as anythingcan reasonably be that one of the original tap-roots of the breed was the Old English WarHorse, which in its turn, as is shown elsewhere,was an enlarged and improved edition of thehorses of the ancient Britons. It is, however,totally unnecessary to go so far back as thechariot horses of Boadicea when attempting totrace the genealogy of the Cleveland Bay. Itwill in fact be amply sufficient for our purposeto

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