194 WESTMORLAND AGRICULTURE, 1800— 1900 



the shows. For the season 1912 the Board have allotted £150 for the 

 improvement of Fell ponies in premiums of £20 each to six stallions, 

 and an additional 2/6 for each foal produced, the service fee for such 

 stallions not to exceed 10/- with 2/6 groom's fee— the districts to be 

 travelled being Hesket New Market, Keswick, Shap, Appleby, Kirkby 

 Stephen and Middleton. The premiums were awarded at the various 

 local stallion shows to Lingcropper Again, Highland Fashion, 

 Dreadnought, Dalesman, Blooming Heather H., and Mountain 

 Ranger, to serve respectively in the districts named. 



In March, 1909, 33 Fell ponies were sold off the fell with the other 

 stock at Low Roughill, Bampton, when stinted mares 4-8 years old 

 brought 10 to 16 guineas, colts and fillies rising three years old 8 to 

 II I guineas, two year olds 7 to 8 guineas, foals 5 to 8 guineas, and 

 a three-year-old stallion 22^ guineas. 



The mares get nothing but what they can pull for themselves 

 all winter on the fells and commons, and their poverty causes many 

 of them to slip their foals — their previous season's foal running with 

 them all the time. 



The development in horse breeding has proceeded at a much 

 slower rate than has been the case with either cattle or sheep. In the 

 first half of the century there are very few records to show the types 

 of animals at the early stallion shows ; the prizes in 1808 were for the 

 most useful stallion, and a few years later there were two classes, 

 " draught or husbandry and road or field " ; and as late as 1840 the 

 classes remained the same, with six entries in the former and four 

 in the latter at the Kendal Show that year. At the Penrith Show in 

 the same year the classes were for Thoroughbred, Agriculture, 

 Coaching and Clydesdales to travel in the two counties. 



Thoroughbreds were bred at Underley, by A. Nowell between 

 1820 and 1840, in which year the mares and young stock were sold 

 off, the first two days sale realizing 4,690 guineas. 



In 1846 Lord Lonsdale sent a Suffolk draught horse, called Prince 

 Albert, to Lowther for service in the district, and at the Appleby 

 Show, four years later, there were four classes, with two entries for 

 Thoroughbreds, three for Road or Field, five for Cart horses, and 

 several for Ponies, all of which had to travel the district. 



In 185 1 a Cleveland horse was travelling in South Westmorland, 



