Did you Know?

• The greatest reliable age recorded for a horse is an incredible 62 years in the case of 'Old Billy' (foaled 1760), believed to be a cross between a Cleveland and Eastern blood...
  Guiness Book of Records
  
  
• The ERTL Toy Company produces small scale models of farm animals, including a replica of the Cleveland Bay. They sell for about $4 US.
  
  
• There has been only one book written about the Cleveland Bay. It is called "Cleveland Bay Horses", by Anthony Dent, out of print and hard to find.
  
  
• A Cleveland Bay stallion was used circa 1890 in the horse breeding program of Canada's police, now known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
  
  
• The bone of a Cleveland Bay is more dense than most other breeds, similar to an Arabian.
  Ref: Cpl. Gary Hart, Dawson Creek RCMP
  
  
• Within horses, the most variable breeds have levels of genetic variation almost 150 per cent greater than the least variable breeds.
  Ref: A presentation by Dr. Gus Cothran at the ALBC annual meeting at the Kentucky Horse Park, Lextington, Kentucky, USA, June 29, 1996
  
  
• "No taint of Black nor Blood" was the proud boast of the Cleveland breeder, meaning there was no carthorse blood involved from the Old Blacks, nor was there Thoroughbred as we know it. ('Black' was the then term for cart blood; we are speaking 20 or 30 years before the Shire and Clydesdale breeds issued their first stud books.)
  Ref: 'Neither Black nor Blood' Elwyn Hartley Edwards discusses the Cleveland Bay and examines the Penrhyn Stud, 1990, Riding, pp 49-50
  
  
• The first North American Cleveland Bay breed society formed its own Stud Book in 1889, with entries going back to the 1860s.
  Ref: 'Neither Black nor Blood' Elwyn Hartley Edwards discusses the Cleveland Bay and examines the Penrhyn Stud, 1990, Riding, pp 49-50
  
  
• "Over 2,000 stallions and mares were registered in America by 1907."
  Ref: "Breed Profile: The Cleveland Bay", Horsepower Magazine, Aug-Sept 1997
  
  
• "To quote from a sales catalog prepared in 1889 by Jesse Harris, importer of horses at Fort Collins, Colorado. "We think we are safe in asserting that in no breed of horses known, do the sires more faithfully mark their progeny than the Cleveland Bays... we can show mares of different grades and colors from Percheron to cayuse and broncho, all suckling bay colts by Cleveland Bay sires... (the breed) is a good disposition, easy to break and of superior intelligence..."
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay" by Joanna Dorman, Driving Digest Magazine, May/June 1983.
  
  
• William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) had taken his Wild West Show to perform for Queen Victoria in England. He was so impressed by the Cleveland Bay that he purchased some and brought them back to the United States. These horses were used in the Wild West Show by having six purebred stallions driven in a stagecoach hitch to culminate the performances. William F. Cody registered 12 stallions and 14 mares in the American Cleveland Bay Stud Book.
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay" by Joanna Dorman, Driving Digest Magazine, May/June 1983.
  
  
• "It is not only genetically stable, but emotionally stable. The Cleveland temperament is calm and equable, unflappable. ...A Cleveland sire or a half-Cleveland dam tends to ensure progeny that uses its head and takes its time in confronting obstacles in the hunting field or on the event course or in the show jumping ring."
  Ref: "Cleveland Bay Horses" by Anthony Dent, 1978, pp 68
  
  
• "What written records remain indicate the Cleveland Bay contributed to American horsebreeding at the time various American breeds such as the Morgan and Standardbred were emerging, suggesting its influence exits to some degree in those breeds."
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay" by Joanna Dorman, Driving Digest Magazine, May/June 1983.
  
  
• A Morgan mare Red Daisy #X-04210, is sired by The Admiral #4871, out of a dam identified as "mare x Imported English Coach"
  Ref: Pedigree of Lupe Felipe #010233, a Morgan stallion who is removed from the English Coach cross by six generations.
  
  
• "When crossed with a Thoroughbred, the offspring (Cleveland Bay/TB crosses) have that extra turn of speed which has made them the outstanding three-day-event horse. In fact, all four reserve horses of the British Olympic gold medal winning team in Mexico were young partbred Cleveland Bays, which, considering their rarity, is no mean achievement."
  Ref: "Cleveland Bays" by Joanna Dorman, unidentified document, circa 1975
  
  
• "Many world champion and Olympic medal winning show jumpers and three day horses carry Cleveland blood in their veins, including horses from the 1968 gold medal British show jumping team in Mexico."
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay" by Pam Gleason, June 1995, Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar.
  
  
• "Here in America numerous partbred Clevelands have garnered top awards in three day eventing, show jumping and driving competitions, including horses riden by juniors to various USET titles."
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay" by Pam Gleason, June 1995, Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar.
  
  
• "One man rode a Cleveland Bay 420 miles within three days."
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay" by Joanna Dorman, Driving Digest Magazine, May/June 1983.
  
  
• "In this horse (the Cleveland Bay) are combined the conformation and movement of a Thoroughbred, the strength of a workhorse, incredible endurance and innate jumping ability. Add to these virtues sure-footedness and calm disposition, and it is apparent that this horse makes an excellent weight-carrying hunter and pleasure horse."
  Ref: "Cleveland Bays" by Joanna Dorman, unidentified document, circa 1975
  
  

  ---

  
  

Kudos to other Cleveland Bay purebreds and partbreds

• "In dressage Arun Tor earned many admirers for British breeds with his promising performance when helping Britain win the Team silver in this year's European Championships. Cleveland Bays have not been used to specifically produce dressage horses, but by pure chance we get high calibre horses like Arun Tor, Posh Paws (competed internationally with Judy Cammaerts), New Morning (also competed internationally, but with Lucy Oppe), Warlock's Wager (Grand Prix horse with Stephen Clarke) and Powder Monkey (member of the British team with Lady Joicey)."
  Ref: The Cleveland Bay Magazine, 1994, pp. 37, by Jane Kidd, an extract from Dressage magazine, November 1993
  
  
• "In the show ring, there have been such (Cleveland/TB crosses competing successfully) as Magic's Mantle, Raffles and Mr. Brasso..." "In dressage, Warlock's Wager, Powder Monkey, Poshpaws and Huntersfield Hugo..." "In eventing, Osberton Holly and Smily (by TB stallions) and Micky and Henleys Country Cousin (by Cleveland stallions)... Osberton Holly has been a top International Junior ride for Sara Kellard and the Range Rover Team. In showjumping, Brook Street Vista and Yoredale Wellington are at the top..."
  Ref: "The Cleveland Bay Horse" brochure by the CBHS published in 1996.
  
  
• Photo caption: "Wetherby Caleb was short listed for the last Olympics, but due to injury had to remain at home. By Osberton Goliath ex TB mare."
  Ref: The Cleveland Bay Magazine, 1994, pp. 48.
  
  
• Photo caption: "A successful show jumper, North Flight, is a cross between a Cleveland Bay and A Thoroughbred. Owned by David and William Barker, he competed in the Tokyo Olympics"
  Ref: Cleveland Bay Horses, by Anthony Dent, 1978, pp. 69
  
  
• "...typical of the deliberate Cleveland temperament, which is a useful asset in competitive jumping, are David and William Barker's successful show jumpers, North Flight and Newsham Bell, both half-Cleveland Bays."
  Ref: Cleveland Bay Horses, by Anthony Dent, 1978, pp 70
  
  
• Photo of Ferdi Eiber and partbred Arun Tor, dressage at Hickstead, part of the first place team at the First Nations Cup to be held in Britain. Arun Tor placed second in the Special.
  Ref: Horse and Hound, July 18, 1996.
  
  
• Although partbred Arun Tor was on the 1996 British Olympic equestrian team, he did not compete.
  Ref: BayWatch newsletter
  
  
  
• "...Harvey Smith's Madison Time, a part-bred Cleveland who competed for the British (Show-jumping) team in the (1968) Mexico Olympics; Rembrandt, out of a half-bred Cleveland mare, by a Thoroughbred, who in the last 1960s won several national three-day events; Viscount, likewise out of a half-Cleveland mare, with a similar record to the above in the same years; Island Monarch, by Happy Monarh (Thoroughbred) out of a Cleveland mare, competing in 3-day events in 1976, having come sixth at Osberton in 1975...
  Ref: Cleveland Bay Horses, by Anthony Dent, 1978 pp 73
  

Kudos to Canadian Cleveland Bay purebreds and partbreds

• The top-selling horse at the 2006 Alberta Invitational Warmblood Sale in Red Deer, Alberta, was Embassy, a lovely 2-year old Canadian Warmblood gelding, by the Holsteiner stallion Cheops Z and out of Cleveland Bay X by Gary Bredin and consigned by Sue and Don Maull, caught the eye of more than one entusoastoc bodder, finishing at a final price of $30,000 CAD.
  The Gaitpost, May 2007, pp. 30

• Speculation was a partbred CB stallion who stood in British Columbia, Canada, for over 20 years.
  Ref: e-mail msg by Jane Scott dated Feb. 2, 1997
  
  
• ..."Pistol Pete, by Speculation who was by a Thoroughbred out of a Cleveland Bay mare. He was Reserve with the Canadian show jumping team at the Montreal Olympic games; Sumatra, another horse by the same sire, was sole Canadian representative at the World Championship event, Burghley, 1974, gaining 8th place. The last two were bred in Canada, where there is not much breeding of pure Clevelands..."
  Ref: "Cleveland Bay Horses" by Anthony Dent, 1978, pp 73
  
  
• ..."Juliet Graham's Sumatra, 8th in the 1974 Burghley Three-Day World Championships and top Canadian horse in the 1976 Olympic Three-Day-Event at Bromont, Canada, and Rembrandt, a successful competitor at the Badminton and Burghley Three-Day-Events in England..."
  Ref: "Cleveland Bay Horses" by Anthony Dent, 1978, Forward by Alexander Mackay Smith, M.F.H, pp 7
  
  
• Harrington Spartan stood at North Battleford, Saskatchewan and at Niton Junction, Alberta. He was foaled in 1979 and died at 12 years of age in 1992. He was owned by Paul Prince.
  
  
• Harrington Majestic has several partbred offspring currently in British Columbia and Alberta. He died in 1994. E-mail me - lyaciw@pris.bc.ca - for Harrington Majestic's pedigree, going back three generations .
  
  
• "Our 1996 CBHSNA Performance Award Winner... Third place goes to Canadian dressage rider Lisa Aarsteinsen with Idlehour Foxtrot, a partbred 3-year old filly by Ramblers Renown out of Dance Every Dance. This up-and-coming filly was named Canadian Sport Horse Grand Champion Performance, beating 224 horses at the Canadian Sport Horse Breeders Classic (in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada) this October. (E-mail me - lyaciw@pris.bc.ca - for more information on Idlehour Foxtrot.)
  Ref: The CBHSNA Baywatch newletter, January 1997, front page, by Faye Mulvey.
  

Top | Home

Last update: Dec/08

Copyright 1999 by Linda Yaciw. All rights reserved. If you wish to reproduce this, please ask for permission.