The Cleveland Bay originates from Britain, in the Cleveland area of  Northern Yorkshire and is the oldest of  the indigenous breed of English  horses. Yorkshire is known as the  source of two breeds, the  Thoroughbred and the Cleveland Bay.  The Cleveland Bay evolved from  crossing native bay colored mares with  Oriental stallions during the 17th  century. Shaped by a harsh  environment, a horse of durability,  longevity and quiet disposition resulted.  These characteristics, combined with  the uniformity of bay color, size and  substance developed a versatile breed  used as hunt horse, coach or pack  horse and as an agricultural worker.  Originally known as the Chapman  horse, after the salesmen who  exclusively used Cleveland Bays as  pack horses, the breed excelled as an  all rounder. During the peak of  popularity, in the late 1880's the  Cleveland Bay Horse Society of Great  Britain published the first volume of its  Stud Book which contained stallions  and mares selected for the purity of  blood. During the 19th century, some  Cleveland Bays were bred to  thoroughbreds and produced the  Yorkshire Coach Horse, a carriage  horse with unmatched ability for speed,  style and power. With the advent of the  mechanical age, the numbers of  Cleveland Bays and Yorkshire Coach  horses rapidly declined and were  further decimated by their use as  artillery horses during World War l.  

VERSATILITY

The first Cleveland Bay stallions were  imported to Maryland, Virginia and  Massachusetts in the early 1800's. The  1884 Upperville Colt and Horse Show  in Virginia was created to showcase Col. Dulany's imported stallion Scrivington and his offspring. Later  William Cody, America's Buffalo Bill  chose the Cleveland Bay for his Wild  West show. Western States utilized  the stallions in their breeding of range horses, noting their staying quality,  easy maintenance and a match for the  biggest of steers. The Cleveland Bay Horse Society  of North America was founded in  1885, with 2000 stallions and mares  registered by 1907. Imported as  superb coach horses, the breed  interest waned during mechanization  but was briefly revived in the 1930's  when Alexander Mackay-Smith  imported founding stock for hunters. Presently, there are around 90  purebred Cleveland Bays in the United  States and Canada, with many  Cleveland Partbreds competing in all  disciplines of horsemanship.  REGISTRY The purebred and part-bred registry is  maintained and supervised by the  Cleveland Bay Society of Great Britain.  Only pure-bred Cleveland Bays sired  by a stallion awarded the Certificate for  Pure Breeding are eligible. Inspection  and approval of stallions and mares by  the Cleveland Bay Society of North  America is done every year or as  warranted. 

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CHARACTERISTICS

• great substance,clean legged with 
• excellent feet, flat cannon bones
• Immensely powerful quarters contribute to jumping ability and dressage
• long lived; prepotent transmitting  uniformity in type and substance
• moves with ground covering power
• ideal for carriage work with strong  and powerful shoulders