40 Breeds of Horses 



were more of the saddle type, whilst the Norfolk horses were more 

 of the harness type. 



Though it is outside the scope of this article to enter minutely 

 into the pedigrees of individual horses, there are two to which a 

 brief reference must be made — Triffit's Fireaway and Bourdass's 

 Denmark — as they have made such a great mark on the modern 

 Hackney, and are perhaps the greatest sires of the latter part of 

 the nineteenth century. Fireaway was foaled in 1859, and was by 

 Hairsine's Achilles (2), through whom comes some Thoroughbred 

 blood, out of Nancy by Ward's Performer by Norfolk Phenomenon. 

 He was a great prize winner, and was the sire of many good 

 stallions, amongst whom may be mentioned Bismarck; Vary's 

 Fireaway, the winner at Alexandra Park in 1874; Foster's Fire- 

 away; Triffit's Landseer; Brough's Phenomenon; Triffit's Sir Edwin 

 Landseer, and Postill's Sir Garnet. Denmark was three years 

 younger than Fireway. He was by Beal's Sir Charles (768), dam by 

 Rickett's Merryman (458). He was very much inbred to Burgess's 

 Fireaway (208), whose dam was by the Thoroughbred Skyscraper, 

 a son of Highflyer. The Thoroughbred Hyperion also comes into 

 his pedigree. His rival, Triffit's Fireaway, also had a strain of 

 Fireaway (208) in his pedigree, and amongst other Thoroughbred 

 horses in it are Ponteland by Waxy and Borodino by Smolensko. 



Denmark, though scarcely so successful in the show ring as 

 Mr. Triffit's famous horse, has the better record as a sire of stallions. 

 First and foremost amongst his sons stands Danegelt (74), for whom 

 Sir Walter Gilbey gave 5000 gs. when he was thirteen years 

 old; other great sires by him were Dorrington (174), Charley 

 Denmark (130), Moore's Confidence (163), Fordham (187), Lord 

 Derwent (418), and Moore's Sunbeam (819). 



The rivalry between these great horses was keen, and the ques- 

 tion has never been settled satisfactorily to their respective partisans 

 as to which of the two has had the best effect upon the breed. It 

 has been said, perhaps with some show of reason, that Denmark 

 sires and Fireaway mares were the better, and there we will leave it. 

 But it may be added as a rider that nearly every great Hackney 

 has a cross of one or other or both. 



The formation of the Hackney Horse Society, and the publica- 

 tion of the Hackney Stud Book marked an important epoch in the 

 history of the breed. For many years it had gradually been de- 

 veloping into a fashionable breed, and the growth of the show 

 system had done much to assist in this development. The Hackney 

 Horse Society by its London show strengthened the movement, 

 and an enormous and increasing foreign trade kept it well " in the 



