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markings which we have, of late years, 

 learned to associate with the stock of the 

 Rutlandshire Champions. High prices were 

 paid for Shires in the last quarter of the 

 eighteenth century. Mr. Hambleton of 

 Gallon Moor sold to Mr. Summerland in 

 1778 a brown stallion for 350 guineas; 

 and in 1791 a two-year-old stallion named 

 Marston was sold by Mr. Handley for 500 

 guineas ; these would be good prices for 

 pedigree stock at the present day. 



It is worth adding to the portraits of Shire 

 Horses foaled during the last decades of the 

 eighteenth century one more showing a pair 

 whose colour betrays them as belonging to 

 a variety closely allied to that last noticed. 

 The picture facing page 58 shows two 

 horses named Pirate and Outlaw, and was 

 painted In 1810 by an artist named J. C. 

 Zeitter ; the owner of the work was Mr. 

 Andrew McCullum, and It was engraved by 

 J. Egan. 



These particulars we obtain from an in- 

 scription on the frame of the work, which is 

 our only source of Information. Having an 

 eye to the accessories in the background, 

 w^e Infer that Pirate and Outlaw were, like 

 Garrard's horse, the property of a brewer ; 

 both before and after this period views of 



