THE CLYDESDALE 



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Lyndoch 4113 (453O); Young MacQueen 8033, by MacOueen 

 3513 (5200) ; Laminated Steel 8700, by Cedric 929 (1087); 

 Benedict 9300 (10315), by Baron's Pride (9122). 



Prices paid for Clydesdales have run into high money in Scot- 

 land, although in America values are often on a much lower 

 level. In February, 1912, the Clydesdale stud of William Taylor 



FIG. 54. Fairholm Footprint 17584, champion Clydesdale stallion at the Inter- 

 national Live Stock Exposition. Bred by R. A. Fairbairn and sold for $5000 to 

 Langwater Farms, North Easton, Massachusetts. From photograph by Hilde- 

 brand, by courtesy of Mr. Fairbairn 



of Renfrew, Scotland, was sold at auction in Glasgow. Fifty-four 

 head averaged $657, and nineteen aged horses averaged almost 

 $1223. The top price was $8400 for Sir Rudolph. On October 7, 

 1915, in a dispersal sale, Robert Brydon, Seaham Harbor, Eng- 

 land, sold one hundred head for an average price of $1059.50, 

 a breed record. The stallion Bonnie Buchlyvie (14032) at nine 

 years of age brought $26,250. Phillipine, a three-year-old son of 

 Bonnie Buchlyvie, brought $12,075. Thirty-four mares averaged 



