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Encyclopedia > Cleveland Bay
Cleveland Bay
Cleveland Bays in harness.
Cleveland Bays in harness.
Country of origin: England
Breed standards

The Cleveland Bay is a carriage-type horse, and is almost always true to its color: bay. This uniform color is desired in carriage horses because a team is more easily matched. The recesive chestnut colour has not been eliminated entirely, and on rare occasions still occurs in pure bred Cleveland Bays. In Britain, they are still used to pull carriages on state occasions. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 400 pixelsFull resolution (2143 × 1072 pixel, file size: 1. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ...


History of the Breed

Believed to be the oldest breed in Britain (besides the native ponies), the Cleveland Bay was bred in the Cleveland area of north-eastern England. The foundation stock is said to have dated back to the times of the Romans, and there are record suggesting that the breed was in existence in medieval times. They were originally known as Chapman Horses, since they were used as pack horses for travelling salesmen known locally as 'chapmen'. Status: Non-metropolitan county Admin. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ...


The now-extinct Galloway pony was thought to have been added to give the Cleveland Bay more surefootedness, while Barb blood was added for refinement. These big, strong horses were used for a variety of purposes, from working the land, to carrying goods, to foxhunting, to carriage work. As roads improved, there was a need for a faster carriage horse and the thoroughbred was, once again, introduced. The tall, elegant offspring, known as the Yorkshire Carriage Horse were very popular and exported across the world. The Galloway pony is an extinct horse breed, once native to Scotland and northern England. ... The word barb can have many meanings: Look up barb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


The car made the Cleveland Bay all but disappear. Because pure-bred Cleveland Bays were more versatile, they remained as hunters, carriage, and farm horses. But World War II sent their numbers into decline.


Luckily, there was a revival in the 1960s due mainly to Queen Elizabeth II, who bred many top-quality Cleveland Bays for the royal stables. Today, they are very popular for crossing with other breeds for their size, substanance, and docility. A number of warmbloods, especially from Germany, have benefitted from their blood. In recent years, the Cleveland Bay has been used as a competition horse. The part-breds have really excelled, especially those with Thoroughbred in their veins. The partbreds excel in the jumper, dressage and show arenas, as well as in eventing. The most known Cleveland Bay in American is Tregoyd Journeyman. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... Warmbloods are a group of sport horse breeds and the term simply distinguishes this type of horse from the cold bloods (draft horses) and the hot bloods (Thoroughbreds and Arabians). ... Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ...


Breed Description

As its name suggests, the Cleveland Bay is almost always a bay horse. No other color is allowed except a small white star and some white in the mane and tail. Any purebreds not meeting these rules, such as the occasional chestnut, or those with excesive white, are retained in a grading register to ensure valuable genetic material is not lost from what is a very rare breed. They are generally 16-16.2hh(160-165cm), and have a good temperament. They have a long, sloping shoulder, strong limbs with plenty of bone, a strong back and hindquarter, and a large head with a fairly straight face. In geography, a bay or gulf is a collection of water that is surrounded by land on three sides. ...


External links

  • Open Directory Project - Cleveland Bay directory category
  • http://www.clevelandbay.com/
  • http://www.clevelandbay.org/
  • http://www.horsequest.com/bredshow/cleveland/cbay.htm

  Results from FactBites:
 
Cleveland Bay Draft Horses | Farm & Garden (1056 words)
The Cleveland Bay is the oldest indigenous horse breed in the United Kingdom.
The Cleveland Bay's ancestor is the Chapman horse.
It is acceptable for the head of the Cleveland bay to have a slightly convex nose, and it is often thought to resemble the head of the Andalusian.
Cleveland Bay Breed (1506 words)
The Cleveland Bay’s origins can be traced back to the middle ages in the Cleveland district of north Yorkshire where a race of clean legged bay colored horses were the general purpose horses of their time.
The Cleveland Bay benefited from an infusion of blood from horses imported from the East that were used to create the Thoroughbred breed, another Cleveland district native.
The result was a decline in the Cleveland Bay population to the point where the breed was in serious danger of becoming extinct.
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