HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



Like " Eclipse," he appears to have been a remarkably 

 fast horse, and ti-ansmitted his excellent cjnalities to his son, 

 " Blaze," foaled dnrinj^ 1/33, who afterwards travelled in 

 Norfolk, hence the repntation this county obtained or the 

 excellency of its hackne\'s, or Norfolk trotters. 



" Blaze " was the sire of the first " Shales " (there being 

 several " Shales ' to name), foaled in 1755, and the grandsire 

 of " Driver," foaled ten years later, and from this horse Jenkin- 

 son's " Fireaway " and West's " Fireaway " were derived. The 

 first named was foaled in 1780, and the latter in 1800. \\>st's 

 " Fireaway " was the sire of Burgess's " Fireaway " (1815), and 

 the latter the sire of " \Mldfire," foaled in 1827. 



During the season of 1835, ^ son (" Phenomenon ") was 

 foaled, and five years later " Phenomenon " produced " Per- 

 former," and he in turn " Sir Charles " (1843), and the latter 

 " Denmark " the sire of that remarkable hackney " Danegelt," 

 foaled in 187Q, and who died at the age of fifteen years, after a 

 remarkably brilliant show and stud career. 



When " Phenomenon " was about three years of age, Mr. 

 Bond, of Cawston, Norfolk, sold him to Mr. H. R. Phillips, and 

 he in turn handed him over to Mr. Robert Ramsdale, of Market 

 Weighton, for the purpose of crossing with Yorkshire mares, 

 in order to improve the breed of roadster at that time in the 

 county, as these animals were awanting to size, style and action. 

 In this way there resulted a Yorkshire type of hackney or 

 roadster, bigger, and with more substance than those produced 

 m Norfolk, so that there is the same credit due to Mr. Ramsdale 

 regarding the moulding of the present type of hackney, as 

 Mr. Bakewell, of Dishley, did towards impro\'ing the shire. 



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