Ride a (cleveland) Bay Day

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Sunday 9th September is Ride a Bay Day.

If you own a pure or a part-bred Cleveland Bay please put this date in your diary.

Watch this space for more information next week.
 
I'd love to ride a Cleveland Bay, as I have a horse everyone keeps mistaking for one (he isn't but might have some breeding way back) and I might consider a part bred or full bred as my next one. But none near me I think!
 
Mithras said:
I'd love to ride a Cleveland Bay, as I have a horse everyone keeps mistaking for one (he isn't but might have some breeding way back) and I might consider a part bred or full bred as my next one. But none near me I think!
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Are you in London? There is a lady who lives at the end of the Mall who keeps about 30 in London, I don't think she has any for hire though!!!

If you pop over to France you can ride one of mine or ask on the Southern Cleveland Bay Club Website if anyone is in need of a riding companion for the day.
 
CBFan said:
My Pure CB is 17.2 and still growing.... ;)
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Yep Plenty of tall CB's. I being a timid soul and an OAP prefer to be a bit closer to the ground. The original CB was a pack horse and so stood at 15.2hh, I have five CB's from 15.2hh to 17hh. Something for everyone.
 
Don't you just hate it when that happens - 'stop growing' and they don't. Could this why the Cleveland Bay has a reputation for being stubborn? (Can't get my smiley faces to work - sob)
 
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there is my warmblood, any CB in there u reckon??
 
lyndsayberesford said:
http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?z=sIVJMI&d=okie+dokie+v

there is his breeding lines

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151959850870562.876917.694900561&type=3&l=bf449fd10d

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151362453430562.813499.694900561&type=3&l=ce6e1de0da

two links to albums with him in (not the white faced horse though)
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What a lovely horse - for me the first thing that spelled CB is his gorgeous coat which we associate with the Cleveland Bay and YES if you trace his pedigree back you will find a lot of CB and YCH, via Oldenburg, Holstein, and even SF blood line.

Marius KWPN trace back to the Young Duke of Cleveland through both Furst and Godin

Celesta in Okie Dokie's pedigree via both Schiller and Nancy traces back to Yourng Burlington, Ostwick and Ethelbert.

If you trace through Bordeaux in SF pedigrees you will find The Juggler - a CB - although I have to say he is not in our stud book.

So yes he will have a fair bit of Cleveland Bay in his gene pool.
 
Graureiter said:
Another excuse to ride. :D

Not that I need one.

Jesse, my 17h2" part bred. 3/4 CB, 1/8 TB and 1/8 Percheron .

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What a super horse - you know we have a Champion Show Cob in the UK who is dapple grey, called Natterjack Toad he is TBxCB. Do post some photos when you have done the ride.

A long time since I was in the mid-west but did visit Virginia last summer. My stallion's sire Tregoyd Journeyman stands at the Old Dominium Stud. I had a great time and visited the Upperville Horse Show.
 
Rollin said:
What a lovely horse - for me the first thing that spelled CB is his gorgeous coat which we associate with the Cleveland Bay and YES if you trace his pedigree back you will find a lot of CB and YCH, via Oldenburg, Holstein, and even SF blood line.

Marius KWPN trace back to the Young Duke of Cleveland through both Furst and Godin

Celesta in Okie Dokie's pedigree via both Schiller and Nancy traces back to Yourng Burlington, Ostwick and Ethelbert.

If you trace through Bordeaux in SF pedigrees you will find The Juggler - a CB - although I have to say he is not in our stud book.

So yes he will have a fair bit of Cleveland Bay in his gene pool.
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Wow that is amazing to know! Thanks for that info!! Just as a newbie to the whole CB thing, what is YCH?

Wow I am genuinely amazed that he has so much CB in his bloodlines! Wow! Always wanted a CB too! Now I can say I got a PB! Would he get in the Cb part bred stud book?
 
lyndsayberesford said:
Wow that is amazing to know! Thanks for that info!! Just as a newbie to the whole CB thing, what is YCH?

Wow I am genuinely amazed that he has so much CB in his bloodlines! Wow! Always wanted a CB too! Now I can say I got a PB! Would he get in the Cb part bred stud book?
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Yorkshire Coach Horse - a CBxTB (the original sport horse?) The stud book was closed in 1936. Interestingly breeders found that too much 'blood' was not advisable so pure bred CB stallions could stand in the YCH stud book.

The current Chair of our Breed Committee tells me that as recently as the last 20 years Oldenburg breeders came to the UK to buy a pure bred CB stallion to improve the Oldenburg.

This is why it is so important to preserve the pure bred Cleveland Bay.
 
Rollin said:
Are you in London? There is a lady who lives at the end of the Mall who keeps about 30 in London, I don't think she has any for hire though!!!

If you pop over to France you can ride one of mine or ask on the Southern Cleveland Bay Club Website if anyone is in need of a riding companion for the day.
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Sadly not, I'm in Scotland. Bit far! But I'm intrigued because I've been asked if my horse is a Cleveland Bay, although he is in fact a German Warmblood, born in Warendorf, but mysteriously with no breeding listed in his papers.

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Rollin said:
What a lovely horse - for me the first thing that spelled CB is his gorgeous coat which we associate with the Cleveland Bay and YES if you trace his pedigree back you will find a lot of CB and YCH, via Oldenburg, Holstein, and even SF blood line.

Marius KWPN trace back to the Young Duke of Cleveland through both Furst and Godin

Celesta in Okie Dokie's pedigree via both Schiller and Nancy traces back to Yourng Burlington, Ostwick and Ethelbert.

If you trace through Bordeaux in SF pedigrees you will find The Juggler - a CB - although I have to say he is not in our stud book.

So yes he will have a fair bit of Cleveland Bay in his gene pool.
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It's funny isn't it... the cleveland is a very unique bay colour... the blackness of the legs and points is also very unique...

That is so interesting about that pedigree! I'd have never known all that! and very interesting that the CB features have come out so prominently in this example too :)
 
Many German warmbloods carry Cleveland Bay blood. During the 18th and 19th centuries some of the best CB's and YCH were exported to improve European Breeds, see my earlier post.

I don't know where you are in Scotland, we still have a home on the edge of the Trossachs and I know two CB owners in Perthshire. Ormiston Highlands who featured recently on the TV programme about the lost roads of Britain, used to stand an unregistered CB stallion, to which they were very attached. I know they bred some useful hunter types by crossing with Highlands. I have asked if they will participate on 9th September.

There is also a breeder in Abderdeen who used to have the CB stallion Runswick Liberator - he is now in Wales where his owner hunts him.
 
Rollin said:
Many German warmbloods carry Cleveland Bay blood. During the 18th and 19th centuries some of the best CB's and YCH were exported to improve European Breeds, see my earlier post.

I don't know where you are in Scotland, we still have a home on the edge of the Trossachs and I know two CB owners in Perthshire. Ormiston Highlands who featured recently on the TV programme about the lost roads of Britain, used to stand an unregistered CB stallion, to which they were very attached. I know they bred some useful hunter types by crossing with Highlands. I have asked if they will participate on 9th September.

There is also a breeder in Abderdeen who used to have the CB stallion Runswick Liberator - he is now in Wales where his owner hunts him.
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I'll keep an eye out here - I would travel to ride a Cleveland Bay, though I'm in Aberdeen. I would be interested to see if they are like my boy to ride in any way, because he is extremely opinonated and either takes a like or a dislike to the rider almost instantly. I would certainly have another like him though!

My guess is that he has quite a lot of Gelderlander in him, which also I believe had quite a bit of Cleveland Bay foundation stock. I just think its a bit of a shame that such an ancient breed with so many good qualities, which has been used as foundation stock in so many continental warmblood breeds, is so often overlooked in the UK itself.

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Mithras said:
I'll keep an eye out here - I would travel to ride a Cleveland Bay, though I'm in Aberdeen. I would be interested to see if they are like my boy to ride in any way, because he is extremely opinonated and either takes a like or a dislike to the rider almost instantly. I would certainly have another like him though!

My guess is that he has quite a lot of Gelderlander in him, which also I believe had quite a bit of Cleveland Bay foundation stock. I just think its a bit of a shame that such an ancient breed with so many good qualities, which has been used as foundation stock in so many continental warmblood breeds, is so often overlooked in the UK itself.

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Wow he is Beautiful! My gelding had much the same attitude and now Cbfan has kindly pointed out just how much cb is in his lines! LOTS

I'd love to ride a CB! Defo will consider them in my next horse search!!! Prob not for a long time though
 
Anyone wanting to purchase a CB place your order now to avoid disappointment.

Last year on 33 foals were born, we don't know numbers for this year.

This is why I and other breeders are so keen to get people mounted up for 9th September to publicise the joy of owning a Cleveland Bay. If we don't sell horses no one will breed them.

The past few years have seen the death of several of our most experienced breeders and we need new blood to keep the breed alive.
 
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