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years. Among the best of his get are Kirkhum l^iu'eador and 

 that fine mare, Rosadora, at one time owned by Mr. Galbraith. 

 With Kirkhurri Toreador, who was bred by the late Hon. Mrs. 

 Vernon, of Auchans, Kilmarnock, Mr. Buttle repeated the 

 former championship triumphs of his sire at the London 

 Hackney Show in 1909 and 1910. Holderness way, the 

 Hedon stud (Mr. Arthur Fewson's) is one of first-rate impor- 

 tance. It dates its existence back to the early stud-book days, 

 and has sent out some good prize winners, among the most 

 notable l^eing the mare Brunette and Hedon. Squire, foaled 

 here in 1891. This horse in the ownership of Sir Walter 

 Gilbey won the Grand Championship for the best half-bred 

 {demi-sang) stallion at the Paris International Horse Show in 

 1900 in open competition against all Continental breeds. This 

 achievement was a great feather in the cap of the Hackney, 

 and undoubtedly served to stimulate interest in the breed 

 on the Continent, so having a far-reaching effect. In the 

 North Riding Mr. John Wilson, of Kirby Misperton, who not 

 long ago sold a stallion to the Japanese for 400?.. and Mr, Lovel 

 Dauby, whose stud is located at Swan Hill, Wykeham, have 

 been prominent Hackney breeders for years. The latter owned 

 a noted mare in Dainty, sire Denmark, with which he won a 

 good deal in the nineties. 



Among the names of the more noted Hackney sires used in 

 Yorkshire during the last two decades one figures conspicuously, 

 that of Ganymede — a big and strong chestnut stallion and fine 

 mover, by Danegelt, belonging to Mr. Tom Mitchell, of the 

 Eccleshill stud, near Bradford. He was bred l)y Mr. John 

 Wreghitt, in the Market Weighton district, who was also the 

 l)reeder of Wildfire, previously alluded to as the sire of Polonius. 

 Ganymede has got much good stock, and though not perhaps as 

 fashionable as some others, he has been a very popular sire. 

 Other stallions to leave a mark in the county of recent years are 

 Conquest II, also by Danegelt out of the celebrated mare 

 Brunette (previously referred to), and the well-known Copper 

 King, a Mathias horse, who stood one season at Mr. Henry 

 Moore's place, and subsequently at Malton, in the North Riding. 

 Both these stallions have been sold to Chili, Conquest II some 

 four years ago, and Coppjer King last year. 



Going back thirty-five or forty years, a horse called Shepherd 

 F. Knapp is of some historical interest in connection with 

 Yorkshire horse-breeding, and especially so with the Hackney 

 breed, for he figures in the appendix of Vol. I. of the " H. S. B." 

 as the sire of certain of the early stud-book Hackneys. This 

 stallion, whose name recalls that of a famous horseman in the 

 United States a generation ago, was an American trotter, of 

 Justin Morgan descent, and had a considerable reputation on 



