4 Breeds of Horses 



date. Agnew's Farmer (292), from Balscalloch, Stranraer, won a 

 £^0 premium at the Highland and Agricultural Society's show at 

 Dumfries in 1830, and his sire was a horse named Clydeside, 

 which could hardly have borne that name unless he had come from 

 the valley of the Clyde. 



The Clydesdales of the peninsula of Kintyre are clearly de- 

 scended from the Lanarkshire centre, and the subsequent history of 

 the race is linked with that of the mainland, and in particular of 

 the Rhins of Galloway, through Rob Roy (714), a very notable 

 horse, which travelled both in Kintyre and Wigtownshire. The 

 first improvement from the native Highland garron is credited to a 

 black horse or black horses brought into the peninsula by the laird 

 of Lee in Lanarkshire, who then also owned land in Kintyre. Its 

 subsequent development during the years under review is closel)- 

 associated with the horses Farmer's Fancy (298), of the main 

 trunk line from Broomfield Champion (95); Rob Roy (714), whose 

 " pedigree " in the usual acceptance of that term is doubtful ; Largs 

 Jock (444), which belongs to the same Ayrshire race as the cele- 

 brated Sir Walter Scott (797), the champion at the Royal Inter- 

 national Show at Battersea in 1862; and Lome (499), a horse 

 which lived long and left many foals. 



The connection between the North of Scotland and the North 

 of England as Clydesdale breeding areas and the home of the 

 Clydesdale can easily be traced, but the original elements were not 

 :he same as in the districts north of the Tweed and Solway, to 

 which reference has been made. Shire horses undoubtedly travelled 

 in both localities, and left their mark on the produce. In Aberdeen- 

 shire there is evidence that the laird of Pitfour imported what he 

 called Suffolk stallions, although from the descriptions of these 

 horses it may fairly be doubted whether they were of the race of 

 the famous sorrels or chestnuts so long bred in East Anglia. It is 

 more than probable that the Pitfour stallions came from East 

 Anglia, but the roughness of their legs suggests the Fen country 

 as their home, and the old English Cart Horse as their ancestor. 

 There were, however, Suffolk stallions in Buchan, and one of them 

 was quite well remembered by farmers thirty years ago. Cum- 

 berland and Westmorland, although aiming at Clydesdales, must 

 acknowledge some indebtedness to Shires. As cart horses no class 

 of Clydesdales are more valuable than those bred in these districts. 



The main connecting link between Lanarkshire and Cumberland 

 is Pringle's Young Clyde (949), bred in 1826 near Hyndford Bridge, 

 Lanarkshire. The other lines of breeding there are all more or less 

 closely identified with the Clydesdale centres. Blyth (79), a horse 



