. Biggle horse book. Horses. farmer trusts his hired men with them in the held because them and to church m good style without fear of fractious conduct or a runaway. They are intelligent, sensible, good roadste,. and styhsh. For this reason they are nnexctlled as teams for wealthy city men who are willing and able to pay a good price. The cut represents the two-year-old filly THE DIFFERENT BREEDS. 17 owned by The Cleveland Bay Horse Company, of Paw Paw, Mich. She is a fair specimen of a beautiful breed. THE YORKSHIRE BAY. Among the finest carriage horses in the world is the high- class Yorksh
. Biggle horse book. Horses. farmer trusts his hired men with them in the held because them and to church m good style without fear of fractious conduct or a runaway. They are intelligent, sensible, good roadste,. and styhsh. For this reason they are nnexctlled as teams for wealthy city men who are willing and able to pay a good price. The cut represents the two-year-old filly THE DIFFERENT BREEDS. 17 owned by The Cleveland Bay Horse Company, of Paw Paw, Mich. She is a fair specimen of a beautiful breed. THE YORKSHIRE BAY. Among the finest carriage horses in the world is the high- class Yorkshire Bay, combining as he does the quality and grace of the thoroughbred with the strength, color and beauty of form of the Cleveland. He is an ideal of all that is mag- nificent and useful in the carriage horse. His color is a rich, shining bay, his coat is as bright and fine and as glossy and as iridescent as that of the race horse; his legs, mane and tail are raven black, setting off the splendor of his golden color. He is strong and lengthy; he stands over a great deal of ground; his top has the flowing lines of the Cleve- land back and level quarter ; his ribs are well sprung; he carries his neat head and arched crest as well as his high-set tail with all the pride and grace of an Arab, and no bearing- rein is needed to make him bend. At rest and in action he is a golden picture of stateliness. There may be other breeds that lift the knee higher, but the movement of the Yorkshire Bay is fine and free ; it is not a mere snapping of the knee and flexing of the hocks, but he moves smoothly, evenly and with liberty from the shoulders and thighs ; step- ping lightly and airily, yet with a long reach, he covers the ground swiftly and with ease. The Yorkshire Bay is a created type ; its home is the north and east ridings of Yorkshire. It has been formed by selection and crossing the Cleveland directly or indirectly with the thoroughbred. THE FRENCH COACH horses are a combination o
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