THE SHIRE 159 



Shire Society Show, sold for 3700 guineas, or about $18,500, 

 at the dispersal sale of horses of the late Earl Egerton of Tatton, 

 Cheshire, England. In this sale 21 head sold for an average 

 price of about $2325. The stallion Dan Patch 9856 (28815), 

 foaled in 1905 and champion at the International Live Stock Ex- 

 position in 1910, was sold during the show by Truman's Pioneer 

 Stud Farm of Illinois, importers, for $10,000. In 1911 the mare 

 Bellingsborough Belle sold at auction in England for $6200, 

 the high price for a Shire mare up to that time. In March, 



1913, the two-year-old stallion Childwick Champion (22215) sold 

 at Lord Rothschild's sale for $20,664. At the dispersal sale 

 of the Tring Park stud in England in 1915 the average price 

 received for 47 ani- 

 mals of both sexes was ___ B _ k 



$2822, the average for HMhL J^^L US. 



32 stallions and colts 



being$36i4. In 1918 



the five-months-old 



horse foal Pendley 



Goalkeeper sold in 



England for $7000. 



In Various sales held ^ IG ' ^ l ' ^ ac ^ n aw ^rds on Shires at the Royal 

 T-, , . . Show, England. From photograph by the author 



in England in 1916 



Shire stallions sold up to $15,000, Norbury Menestrel bringing 

 this price at the sale of the late L. Solomon. Many Shire mares 

 and fillies have sold at prices ranging from $750 to $2000. 



Associations to promote the Shire horse are comparatively young. 

 The English Cart Horse Society was organized in 1878, essen- 

 tially to promote the Shire, and in 1884 it changed its name to 

 that of the Shire Horse Society. Up to January, 1919, this 

 society had published thirty-nine volumes of studbooks and had 

 registered 126,437 animals. As long ago as 1898 the society 

 had 2237 members. The annual show of the society is the great- 

 est single-breed horse show in Great Britain, some 700 horses 

 usually being exhibited. The Shire Horse Society of Canada 

 published Volume I of its studbook in 1901 and Volume III in 



1914. The American Shire Association was organized in 1885, and 

 up to January, 1919, has published twelve volumes of studbooks. 



