Clydesdales 9 



the Glasgow stallion show in 1876 and 1877. He was a horse of 

 great character, brown or dark dappled bay in colour, with a white 

 mark on forehead and one white hind leg. He had a first-rate 

 well-shapen foot, of the best material, pasterns set at the right 

 ^ngle, good hard bones and clean limbs, a splendid neck and well- 

 laid oblique shoulders, with high withers, and good barrel. His 

 head was inclined to the pony shape, and his quarters were short 

 and drooping. He was a splendid walker, moving with a long, 

 swinging, cart-horse stride; but his trotting action was defective, 

 especially in front. In respect of trotting action he was distinctly 

 inferior to Prince of Wales (673), but as a sire of breeding stallions 

 and mares he was in his time without a peer. From about 1880 to 

 1890 the produce of Darnley and his sons, Macgregor (1487), Top 

 Gallant (1850), Sanquhar (2393), Flashwood (3604), and others, 

 dominated the showyards and fixed the fashionable Clydesdale 

 type. Prince of Wales followed Darnley in the Rhins of Galloway 

 in 1887 and 1888, and among the large crops of foals left by him in 

 these two seasons out of young mares got by Darnley were some 

 of the choicest specimens of the breed ever exhibited. They sold 

 as foals for unprecedented prices — one. Prince Alexander (8899) 

 making as high as £1200 before one year old, while i^soo was a 

 common enough price for both colts and fillies got in the way 

 indicated. 



In spite of their fine quality and beautiful action and symmetry, 

 there can be no doubt that animals of the Prince of Wales-Darnley 

 cross were frequently lacking in cart-horse character. The reputation 

 of the breed in this particular was saved largely by a new combina- 

 tion of the same strains of blood in a later generation. 



Sir Everard (5353) was undoubtedly the sire which saved the 

 situation. He was got by Top Gallant (1850), a son of Darnley 

 (222), and himself a Glasgow champion horse in 1880, out of a 

 mare by London Prince (472), a son of Prince of Wales (673) and 

 the renowned champion mare London Maggie (84). Sir Everard's 

 pedigree traces back for several generations on the female side to 

 the old Lanarkshire fountain-head. He was a masculine horse of 

 weight and substance. He was bred by Mrs, Lamont, Killellan, 

 Toward. Foaled in 1885, in March, 1891, he stood fully 17.1 hands 

 high, girthed when in ordinary condition 8 ft, and weighed 2o| cwt., 

 or 2324 lb. He measured 26 in. round the upper muscles of the 

 forearm, 17 in. round the knee, had 1 1 in. bone below the knee, and 

 12 in. bone below the hock. He was a horse of great depth of rib, 

 with a short back and splendid quarters and thighs. The formation 

 of his hind leg was faultless, and in front he stood well up at the 



