130 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



Almost immediately Baron's Pride became the sire par excel- 

 lence, his progeny sweeping show after show. Only twice was his 

 supremacy threatened, once by his son and once by that peerless 

 grandson of the Prince of Wales, Hiawatha. In his twenty-three 

 years of life his blood made contacts that six years after his death 

 link him to ninety percent of the living registered animals of his 

 breed. During his career he earned upwards of $150,000 in ser- 

 vice fees and showyard monies, and through the leasing of his 

 sons, Andrew Montgomery not only nearly monopolized the stal- 

 lion industry of Scotland, but by his genius so concentrated, so 

 focussed the excellencies of the Darnley-Prince of Wales heritage, 

 that it breeds on and on to the permanent and increasing improve- 

 ment of the breed as a whole. 



Through his countless leases of Baron's Pride's sons, through 

 his personal extension and visitation of America, Canada and the 

 European continent, he has done more to further the breed's 

 development than any single figure since its establishment. He 

 has visited the International and been breed arbiter at Toronto 

 and St. Paul. His will was indomitable, his wit and judgment 

 keen. To Andrew Montgomery more than to any individual 

 living or dead is due the great constructive progress in Clydesdale 

 type since the middle 70's, and the crystallizing of the bloodlines 

 that make Clydesdale breeding a work of almost scientific preci- 

 sion. His death in 1912, separated only a few months from the 

 demise of Baron's Pride, abruptly sundered personal bonds that 

 linked Clydesdale lovers of every land to Netherhall. 



