THE FARMER'S^ MAGAZINE. 



ENGLAND'S GLORY. 



A CELEBRATED CART STALLION, THE PROPERTY OF MR. B. TAYLOR, OF PETERBOROUGH. 



England's Glory, bred by Mr. Woolsey, of 

 Newton, near Wisbeach, in May, 1851, is by 

 Brown's England's Glory, out of a black Lin- 

 colnshire mare of Mr. Woolsey's, by Cork's 

 Thumper, which horse was by Ewin's Magnum 

 Bonum. 



Brown's England's Glory took the first prize at 

 the Great Show of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 held at Windsor in 1851 ; as well as another first 

 prize of the Manchester and Liverpool Association 

 in the same year. He was by Seward's Major, 

 twice a prize horse at Wisbeach — Major by Pur- 

 rant's Honest Tom, by Goodman's Honest Tom, 

 who in turn was by another England's Glory — Mr. 

 Bingham's — that took the prize at Lincoln three 

 years in succession, and for which his owner re- 

 fused four hundred guineas. Going a step further 

 back, the gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. sire of our portrait was 

 Wiseman's Honest Tom, purchased by Mr. Wood, 

 of Cottingham, for four hundred guineas. 



In 1854, when rising three years old, England's 

 Glory was shown at the Peterborough Meeting, 

 and " highly commended." In the year following 

 he took this Society's first prize — an open " All 

 England" one without any restrictions whatever — 

 and for the four next years in succession he in- 

 variably took a premium at Peterborough. The 

 Committee of the Society, however, rather tired of 

 this, and after his ditto in 1859, paid Mr. Taylor's 

 horse the high compliment of specially prohibiting 

 him from again competing. In 1857, after a very 

 heavy season, England's Glory was exhibited at the 

 Royal Agricultural Society's Meeting at Salisbury, 

 where he obtained no notice excepting in one of 

 our reports, which thus spoke of him : — " In class 

 I. for agricultural horses we have thirty-seven 

 entries. The best horse we saw in this class is 

 England's Glory, now the property of Mr. B. 

 Taylor, of Peterborough. Here is substance and 

 style. Those who wish to breed for the London 

 Market should employ this horse." Not a bad 

 critique on an uncommended entry. 



In 1858, when on his way to the Chester Show, 

 England's Glory met with an injury from the 

 violent shunting of a " goods' " train on that to 

 which his box was attached ; and he was at once 

 sent home again. The mark of where he was hurt 

 is still very visible on the top of his quarter, but 

 more so in the picture than the engraving. In 

 1859, having entirely recovered from his mishap, 

 he went the round of the following meetings, at 

 each of which he took a first prize : — the Peter- 

 borough ; the Huntingdon ; the Royal Society's at 

 Warwick ; the Lincolnshire at Grimsby ; and the 

 Yorkshire at Hull ; with a second premium at 

 Liverpool. Since then he has never been shown 

 for a prize. In all, England's Glory has been ex- 

 hibited eleven times, on nine of which occasions he 

 took prizes, and once a high commendation. His 

 premiums in " public money " amount to nearly a 

 hundred and fifty pounds. 



The stock of England's Glory have been almost 



equally successful. At the Royal Meeting at 

 Chester a two-year-old colt by him, also the property 

 of Mr. Taylor, took the second prize of £l5, and 

 another prize of £15 in the " Local " class of the 

 same show. This colt was then sold to Mr. Reed, 

 of Beamish Burn, near Durham — the owner of 

 the famous cart stallion. Nonpareil — for two hun- 

 dred pounds ; and at the next show at the 

 Northumberland Meeting won the head prize of 

 £'20, open to all England and all ages. He beat 

 eighteen others here, including the Salisbury prize 

 horse Matchless. At the end of the season Mr. 

 Reed took the three-year-old on to Morpeth, where 

 he won another first prize, against a good field of 

 all-aged horses. Another colt of Mr. Taylor's by 

 England's Glory was shown as a three-year-old at 

 Peterborough in the March of last year, when he 

 also took the first All-England all-aged prize, de- 

 feating eleven others, amongst which were included 

 Bay Emperor, the first prize agricultural stallion 

 at the Royal Show at Warwick the year previous. 

 Then, Mr. Sanday, the Leicester sheep breeder, 

 sent a two-year-old colt by England's Glory to 

 Canterbury, where he was highly commended, and 

 £180 refused for him there and then. There is of 

 course some more of the same good sort coming on. 



England's Glory is a rich brown bay horse, 

 handsomely mottled, standing seventeen hands and 

 a half high. He has a kind head, with a good 

 bright eye, a fine neck and a good crest. As 

 we ourselves wrote of him at Warwick, " Judged 

 by their own merits, and altogether independent of 

 any peculiar fancy or fashion, the best two stallions 

 for agricultural purposes were the first prize dray 

 horse Mr. B. Taylor's 'England's Glory,' and 

 Mr. Holland's two-year-old. The dray horse 

 ' England's Glory,' got by ' England's Glory,' 

 and he himself the sire of ' England's Glory,' an 

 echo that must lead to confusion sooner or later, 

 still bears marks of the mishap he met with on his 

 way to Chester, but he shows remarkably well; 

 lively and active, of immense power and substance, 

 short on the leg, and very true in his symmetry, it 

 is quite pardonable to find his owner challenging 

 all the world with him." And, again, at Salisbury : 

 " His legs are clean and unblemished, and his feet 

 all one could wish. England's Glory is certainly 

 a very grand first class style of horse." Further 

 than this, he is very big in the girth, and his 

 weight is declared to be over 22 cwt. 



England's Glory has travelled ever since he was 

 two years old, and until last season in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Peterborough. After, however, he 

 was shown at Great Grimsby, the Lincolnshire 

 breeders wished to have him amongst them ; and 

 he was at Boston the following season, where he 

 served mares at two guineas each. He will, most 

 probably, visit the same district this year, with a 

 guarantee of a certain subscription at three guineas 

 each. He is a very sure stock getter, and Mr. 

 Pishey Snaith reports that scarcely a mare about 

 Boston has missed to him. 



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