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good stallions of iiiin<.)r note that have stood at this stud in the 

 past, one of the best was Calamite, a son of Northwood. The 

 stallions at present in the stud include such fashionably-bred 

 horses as Dunsmore Jameson II by Dunsmore Jameson, 

 Bexton Dray King and Draughtsman by Tatton Dray King, 

 Birdsall Forest King by Redlynch Forest King, Peakirk 

 Harold by Lockinge Harold, Birdsall Calamite by Calamite, 

 and others. Diins77iore Jajneson was purchased at the late 

 Sir P. A. Muntz's sale three years ago, specially to cross with 

 Menestrel mares. He has exceptionally good limbs and fine 

 action, and his produce have already done well at leading 

 sho^\"s. Great things are also expected of the three-year-old 

 Birdsall Forest King. 



Some good Shire stallions are kept by Mr. Wickham- 

 Boynton, of Burton Agnes, for the use of his tenants and of 

 other farmers in the district, his present ones being Cross Bar 

 by Fear None, Penley Warrior, and Burton Agnes Drayman, 

 by that good horse Drayman XXIII. Cross Bar has stood 

 here for several years, and has sired very good cart-horse stock. 

 Among other breeders in East Yorkshire keeping a Shire 

 stallion are Messrs. Hodgson, near Beverley, of hunter-breeding 

 note, and until recently Mr. Robert Whitworth, owner of the 

 Londesborough Hackney stud. Numerous Shire foals of 

 weighty breed are raised and grazed between Selby and 

 Doncaster, and this district claims two leading Yorkshire Shire 

 studs, these lieing the Knottingley stud, not far from Snaith, 

 belonging to Mr. J. C. Jackson, and Mr. Walter Johnson's stud 

 at Hatfield. Both make their influence strongly felt here. 

 South of Doncaster, too, towards the Derbyshire and Notting- 

 hamshire borders, they breed many heavy and good Shires. K 

 local association of breeders here, the Doncaster and District 

 Shire Horse Society, annually hires a stallion for the use of its 

 members. The Wharfedale district is another Shire breeding 

 ground. Among the headquarters of the breed in the West 

 Riding is Mr. A. Grandage's stud at Bramhope, near Leeds, 

 which has latterly been in considerable prominence in con- 

 sequence of the successes of the well-known Gaer Conqueror, 

 who stands there and who Avas the Champion stallion at the 

 Islington Show in 1910 and 1911. He is Gloucestershire-bred, 

 and a very big, stylish, l)rown horse, standing over 17 hands. 



In the North Riding, the breeding of cart-horses probably 

 flourishes as much in the Cleveland country as anywhere, the 

 industry in that part having been fostered since the sixties 

 by the local industrial demand for draught horses of weight. 

 The heavy hairy-legged cart-horse has here practically wholly 

 ousted the indigenous Cleveland breed. Besides Shire stallions, 

 some Clydesdales are used in these parts, especially so in the 



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