26 LIGHT HORSES : BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



for the sake of argument and of argument only that the 

 thoroughbred is all that is pure, and that the Hackney is but 

 half-bred, it must be confessed even by the detractors of the 

 latter that he is a mongrel with an exceptionally long pedigree, 

 in many cases as far reaching as that of the first mentioned 

 horse. It can scarcely be maintained, moreover, that such 

 sires as the Darley Arabian or Godolphin Arabian were in the 

 zenith of their fame only put to galloping mares, in fact, 

 abundant proofs are forthcoming to the contrary ; neither can 

 it be contended or substantiated by evidence that other light 

 mares, besides gallopers, were not highly prized by horse 

 breeders in the eighteenth century. 



Mr. Henry F. Euren, the energetic secretary of the Hackney 

 Horse Society, and an enthusiast upon all questions con- 

 nected with pedigrees, has satisfied himself by a reference to 

 the files of the Norwich Mercury, of the breeding of the original 

 old Shales, a horse which is regarded by modern hackney 

 breeders as the foundation stone of the Stud Book. Shales, 

 according to advertisements which appeared in the Norwich 

 Mercury, in April, 1772, and March, 1773, was the sire of 

 Scots Shales, who was serving at a fee of one guinea a mare, 

 and a shilling to the groom, and is stated to be " by a son of 

 Blaze ; Blaze, by Childers out of a well bred hunter mare." 

 Blaze was foaled in 1733, and was by Flying Childers, dam 

 by Grey Grantham by Brownlow Turk out of a mare by the 

 Duke of Rutland's Black Barb. Of the many sons of old 

 Shales, two at least, Driver and Scots Shales, in turn became 

 pillars of the Stud Book, and to the former of these horses 

 many very many of the best Hackneys of the present day 

 owe their origin. For instance, Mr. Philip Triffit's great sire 

 Fireaway was by Achilles (Hairsine's) by Fireaway (Scott's) 

 who was got by Fireaway (Ramsdale's) by Fireaway (Bur- 

 gess') by Fireaway (West's) by Fireaway (Jenkinson's) a son 

 of Driver, from Mr. T. Jenkinson's mare by Joseph Andrews 

 by Roundhead. Other instances almost innumerable are 

 forthcoming to prove that Hackney breeders of the past, 



