88 The Horse-breeding Industry/ in Yorkshire. 



Southampton, to whom many good hmiters of the present- 

 day strain back, a son of the last, in Cyclops, a very 

 good horse, who won four Queen's premiums, and finally 

 Otterton, also a premium winner, who left some excellent stock 

 in Holderness, and was in 1910 bought by Mr. Wickham 

 Boynton, and eventually sold to go to Ireland. The Wassand 

 stud continued to flourish till Mr. Constable's death three years 

 ago and was then dispersed, when about forty brood mares, 

 in addition to young stock, were sold. It was also at the 

 beginning of the eighties that Mr. Frederick Reynard, of 

 Sunderlandwick, Driffield, a staunch supporter of the hunter 

 to-day, started his stud, founded on old lines of blood, and 

 he has ever since maintained the best traditions of old-time 

 Yorkshire hunter-breeding. 



Lord Middleton's famous stud at Birdsall, the largest in the 

 county and perhaps in England at the present time, has, during 

 the last thirty years exerted a far-reaching influence upon the 

 local horse-breeding industry, which admittedly owes much 

 to his efforts to further its interests. The number of stallions 

 travelled, including thoroughbred hunter sires. Shires, and 

 pony stallions, averages twelve to fifteen in a season, which 

 gives a pretty good idea of the prominent part played by 

 the stud. The leading thoroughbred stallions used here 

 in the eighth Lord Middleton's time, from about 1856 to about 

 1877, Avere Bonnie Morn by Chanticleer, Lord Albemarle, 

 Cheddington by Lanercost, Fingal, and Moi'occo by King Tom, 

 while another good sire was the half-bred Elcot. Morocco, 

 especially, made a great mark, and may justly be styled the 

 father of this stud. He continued standing at Birdsall in 

 the present Lord Middleton's time, being the earliest of the 

 long list of good blood sires in his stud. Most of these sires 

 were premium winners, and among the more notable of those 

 kept at the beginning of the present Lord Middleton's owner- 

 ship — l)esides Morocco, already mentioned — were King Harold 

 by Thnnderbolt, Peppermint by Camballo, and Escamillo 

 liy Pero Gomez. These were followed by Gordon, Spectre 

 Lord, Sherbrooke, who was used largely in the Holderness 

 country, Scot Guard, Hindley by Minting, Teuton, The Coroner, 

 Scotch Sign by AyrsJiire, Bed Eagle, Wales, and others. 

 Several of these, Avith Gordon and the two last named in 

 particular, have stood out very prominently, and must be 

 assigned a foremost place in chronicling the latest phase of 

 the history of horse-breeding in Yorkshire. Probably — after 

 Morocco — the most notable sire was Gordon l)y Hermit out 

 of Sister to Adelaide, foaled in 1881, a dark bay liorse, of ifine 

 carriage and outlook. He stood eleven years -at Birdsall, but 

 was never exhibited, Lord Middleton gave.l,OOOZ. for him^ 



