OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 339 



FAIRHOLME FOOTPRINT 



145. Fairholme Footprint 17584, was foaled June 23, 1913, 

 the property of Mr. Robert A. Fairbairn, Fairholme Farm, 

 New Market, N. J. He is the American culmination of the famous 

 line of Clydesdale sires, descending from Darnley (see Andrew 

 Montgomery, 46) the most skillful bit of pedigree blending the 

 breeding art has yet known. Conceived to the service of the 

 1910 Cawdor Cup winner, Dunure Footprint, he was imported 

 in dam, Harviestoun Baroness (146) in the late summer of 1912. 

 In April, 1914, he was sold to F. Lothrop Ames, Langwater 

 Farms, Northeaston, Mass., for $5,000, thereby setting a world's 

 price record at the time for a colt of his age. He was first shown 

 at the International of 1916, where he was first prize three-year- 

 old Clydesdale stallion and grand champion of his breed, but on 

 his reappearance in 1918, he not only headed the aged Clydesdale 

 stallion class and was again grand champion, but he showed four 

 yearling daughters that stood first, second, third and fourth in 

 the futurity class. These four won the get of sire class for him 

 and three of them with himself at the head won first for breeder's 

 group of stallion and three mares. Only once in American his- 

 tory has such a performance been approached, at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition of 1893, when McQueen and daughters 

 performed similarly, but won over all breeds. In 1919 he again 

 won supreme breed honors at the International Livestock Expo- 

 sition while his two-year-old daughter, Langwater Jessica was 

 junior and reserve grand champion female. 



His sire, Dunure Footprint, is the most famous breeding horse 

 in Scotland and the leading sire of showyard winners. An offer 

 of $130,000 was refused for him, marking the record valuation 

 of a draft stallion. At the 1919 Glasgow Stallion Show he sired 

 six of the twenty-three yearling stallions displayed, they winning 

 second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth respectively. Of 

 these three were sold at auction, the second prize at $20,000, 



