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horses, and trotting blood was scarcely likely to win at Newmarket 

 or elsewhere. A grandson of Shales, Marshall's Hue and Cry, was 

 the sire of a lot of horses named Shales, but he scarcely made such 

 a mark on the breed as did his other grandson, Jenkinson's Fire- 

 away, who was by Driver, and from whom comes a long list of high- 

 class horses, perhaps the most notable amongst them being VV root's 

 Pretender, who was the sire of Bob Ramsdale's Performer, of whom 

 the Druid writes with such enthusiasm, and who was perhaps the 

 finest mover not only of his own but of any time. Other Thorough- 

 bred horses whose names are to be found in the pedigrees of the 

 older horses registered in the Hackney Horse Stud Book, and who 

 had much to do with the formation of the breed as we now know 

 it, were Mr. Robinson's Sampson, a horse that was bred by the 

 Marquis of Rockingham, and famous for his remarkable substance; 

 Jalap, a colt by Regulus, who, according to Marshall, was a very 

 successful sire in the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, and 

 whose name is found in the pedigree of Ramsdale's Performer; 

 and Hartley's Joseph Andrews, a well-known Royal Plate winner, 

 whose name continually occurs in the pedigrees of East Riding 

 celebrities. Of course this by no means exhausts the list of 

 Thoroughbreds who in the eighteenth century and early years of 

 the nineteenth helped to develop the modern Hackney; but those 

 whose names have been mentioned come prominently into the 

 pedigrees of some of the more famous sires, and may be taken as 

 a fair example of what took place in the way of introducing the 

 Thoroughbred cross at the time. 



The Hackney was at a very high pitch of perfection indeed 

 when the railways came and altered tlie whole system of travelling. 

 Then indeed the Hackney seemed likely to suffer severely, but at 

 first he seemed nearly as much wanted as ever as a means of 

 communication between the great trunk railways. The end of 

 road travelling was, however, inevitable; at the best it was only a 

 question of a few years; and had it not been for the fact that gentle- 

 men fancied the stylish horses, and took keenly to them, and that 

 the shows began to increase and multiply, the Hackney would in 

 all probability have fallen on very evil days. 



It is worth noting that during the middle years of the nine- 

 teenth century — say from the 'forties down to the end of the 

 'seventies — the Yorkshire and Norfolk Hackneys grew widely apart 

 in type. This was, no doubt, due in a considerable measure to the 

 greater frequency with which Yorkshire breeders introduced a cross 

 of blood. Whatever the cause, however, the fact remains, and the 

 Yorkshire horses up to quite the end of the 'seventies, or even later, 



