SPLENDID Cleveland Bay horses will be the focus of a special day at Beamish Museum on Sunday.
At intervals during the morning, the museum's magnificent stallion, Traquair Jason, will be paraded as a travelling stallion with his handler dressed in period costume. In the afternoon he will be shown under saddle, riding between the colliery village and town.
In the town stables, visitors can admire one of the Beamish Cleveland Bay mares and her foal, born earlier this year.
The Roland Cookson room will have a display of photographs and information and members of the Cleveland Bay Horse Society will be on hand to talk about the breed, which dates back to Roman times.
They were used by farmers, for riding and as carriage horses. But the breed declined with the arrival of railways, cars and tractors and is now designated as a Category 1 (critical) rare breed
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