6 Breeds of Horses 



would now be called Shires were in use, and undoubtedly con- 

 tributed something to modification of type, but that may have been 

 less than might have been expected. And for this reason. It is 

 matter of history that during the latter part of the eighteenth and 

 the opening quarter of the nineteenth centuries a large number of 

 Clydesdales were purchased at Rutherglen, Lanark, and Biggar fairs, 

 and taken in droves to England. These young colts and fillies were 

 driven south in "mobs", and distributed over the Midland counties 

 by dealers who made this their business. No doubt this explains 

 why Shire horses were brought north possessing many of the best 

 characteristics of the Clydesdale. The late Alexander Galbraith, 

 Croy-Cunningham, Killearn, owned several such horses, and notably 

 one named Tintock, which won second prize at the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society show at Glasgow in 1867. This horse, like 

 Hendrie's Farmer's Glory, left a large number of very superior 

 fillies which developed into highly-successful brood mares. These 

 were spasmodic efforts, but about the year 1870, and until 1884, 

 when he died, the late Lawrence Drew, who was tenant of the farm 

 of Merryton, near Hamilton, made systematic efforts to blend the 

 northern and the southern breeds. He stoutly resisted the proposal 

 to have two stud books, maintaining to the last that Clydesdales 

 and Shires were not two distinct breeds, but, like Booth's and 

 Bates's Shorthorns, two distinct strains or tribes of one breed. He 

 owned the Clydesdale stallion Prince of Wales (673) (foaled 1866, 

 died 1888), one of the grandest draught stallions ever foaled, and 

 purchased mares in England expressly selected for the purpose of 

 mating them with that horse. From the combination Mr. Drew 

 bred a remarkable succession of first-class animals, which won the 

 highest honours. But in spite of the admitted merits of the pro- 

 duce, Mr. Drew failed to convince his countrymen that he was 

 right, and when he died in March, 1884, it may be said that the 

 effective opposition to the Clydesdale Stud Book movement also 

 expired. 



The chief credit of founding the Clydesdale Horse Society and 

 the Clydesdale Stud Book belongs to two gentlemen — the late 

 Earl of Dunmore, who died in September, 1907, and Mr. John M. 

 Martin, in 1877 farming Auchendennan, Alexandria, and Haw- 

 thornhill, Cardross, in Dumbartonshire. The labours of these 

 gentlemen and their associates were splendidly seconded and their 

 policy carried out by Mr. Thomas Dykes, the first secretary of the 

 Society (1877- 1880). 



It may be said that the work of the Glasgow Agricultural 

 Society, which for more than half a century has organized and 



