270 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



the early history of Clydesdale breeding in 

 Scotland I quote from the introduction to Vol. 

 II of the Clydesdale Stud Book, as follows: 



From the articles in a large and handsome work on our 

 "National Breeds of Animals," published under the auspices 

 of the Highland and Agricultural Society, with beautiful 

 illustrations by Howe, it would appear that the Upper Ward 

 farmers brought several animals from England which bred 

 well. Thus in an account of Meg, which won first prize at 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Glasgow, 

 in 1828, it was said that she was by a grandson of Young 

 Britain,- by James Thompson's (of Broomfield, Glasgow) 

 Britain, a grandson of Blaze, a horse belonging to Mr. Scott, 

 of Brownhill, Carstairs, Lanark, which, as mentioned in the 

 history to the Retrospective Volume, won the first prize at a 

 show held in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, in 1785. Blaze, 

 which traveled in the Lothians and Berwickshire, is de- 

 scribed as a beautiful jet black, his legs silvery white to the 

 knees and hocks, and a broad white stripe or blaze down the 

 face. In a letter from Mr. French, of Burnhouses, who, at 

 the request of the editor of the volume, waited upon Mr. 

 Scott, then eighty-nine years of age, the sire of Blaze is said 

 to have been an English draft horse. This may possibly 

 have been the case; but from the description given Of the 

 heavy black horses of England of that period it is not likely 

 to have been one of them, but more likely a Cleveland, if not 

 one of the light-legged pack horses used in Yorkshire and 

 other parts of England at the commencement of the present 

 century. The dam of Young Briton is also reported to have 

 been a Derbyshire mare. Meg, which is a brown with white 

 markings the same color as her dam is a stylish, upstand- 

 ing, lengthy mare, with an exceedingly neat head and clean 

 legs; in fact, she is what would no wad ays almost be described 

 by west-country dealers as "gyp." A portrait is also given 

 in the work of a noted horse, Young Clydesdale, a stallion of 

 considerable reputation at the time in the Lothians and 

 Berwick. He is represented in plow harness, with collar 

 "breeching," a costume now rarely seen on a stallion. 



