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descendant was Clyde alias Glancer (153), known as "Fulton's 

 Ruptured Horse", probably rather a coarse horse if judged by the 

 present standard, but a most impressive sire. His best-known sons 

 were Clyde alias Prince of Wales (155), a first-prize winner at the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society's show; Farmer <7/?V?j Sproulston 

 (290), which made history in Bute and Wigtownshire; Erskine's 

 Farmer's P'ancy (298), which secured high honours at the national 

 shows, and left a strong impression on the Clydesdales of Kintyre; 

 Muircock (550), a great horse of strong individuality which travelled 

 in Renfrewshire and north Ayrshire; Prince Charlie (625), a grey 

 horse which travelled for many a day in the lower district or 

 Machars of Wigtownshire; Barr's Prince Royal (647), a phenome- 

 nally successful show horse, and sire of show winners in Renfrew- 

 shire; and Baasay (21), not a show horse, but evidently a horse of 

 great individuality which bred useful stock in Renfrewshire. These 

 seven stallions made the Clydesdale breed in ^he West of Scotland 

 Their influence was all-pervading there, and even beyond, although 

 other sires share the honours with them in the south, west, and 

 north. 



As the writer has indicated in another article on this subject, 

 the modern era in Clydesdale breeding in Galloway is connected 

 with the names of several gentlemen more or less closely identified 

 with Lanarkshire. The family of the Muirs went from Sornfallo, 

 on the slopes of Tinto, to the Stewartry in 1840, and took with 

 them horses and mares of the true Clydesdale stamp. These were 

 mated with the native stocks referred to in an earlier part of this 

 article, and the combination gave the world the Clydesdale of the 

 closing half of the nineteenth century. Lanarkshire horses, how- 

 ever, had been imported into Galloway before 1840. The system of 

 hiring seems to have begun very early in that part of the country. 

 Samson (1288), a Lanarkshire horse, foaled 1827 or 1828, and his 

 grandsire, a horse named Smiler, which must have been foaled very 

 early in the century, both travelled in the district. John Muir 

 came from Sornfallo to the Banks about 1840; his brother James 

 had a few years earlier come from Sornfallo to Maidland, Wigtown. 

 Both brought Clydesdales in their train, and to this fact may be 

 traced the breeding of one of the epoch-making horses, Lochfergus 

 Champion (449). The Rhins of Galloway was the scene of the 

 early rivalry of Colonel M'Douall of Logan, and Mr. Robert 

 Anderson, Drumore, for the Clydesdale supremacy. In 1835 the 

 latter introduced Old Farmer (576), and a black mare, Old Tibbie, 

 and her neighbour from Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire. But the 

 Lanarkshire foundation had been drawn upon at an even earlier 



