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extreme draft form, consequently the typical Clydesdale 

 is a more upstanding and correspondingly longer, narrower 

 and shallower bodied individual than the representatives 

 of the other draft breeds. This is comparatively speaking, 

 however, as the Clydesdale is in every respect a draft horse, 

 and his stamp has some things to commend it over the 

 other extreme, which is the only type recognized by some 

 draft horse judges. The Clydesdale has length of neck and 

 slope of shoulders which fit a collar admirably, and which 

 with their long, level croup constitute two ends of a very 

 good top line, provided the back is not too low, as is some- 

 times the case. Clydesdale colors are bay and brown most 

 commonly with a profusion of white markings ; black 

 and gray are not rare. 



170. The Shire (Fig. 74). — Bulk and bone are the two 

 features which characterize the Shire most. They are the 

 result of selection to the Englishman's ideal of a draft horse, 

 backed up by an environment in Lincolnshire and Cam- 

 bridgeshire, England, where they were bred, which is most 

 conducive to just such a structure as the breeders strive 

 to attain. His great scale and substance, with his form, 

 are most impressive of draftiness. Yet with all there is a 

 grossness that is suggestive of a low grade of material in 

 his construction. The head is large, especially long, with 

 the face line inclined to be Roman, and the counte- 

 nance expressing a sluggish temperament. The hair coat 

 is luxuriant, the mane and tail being, especially heavy 

 and feather abundant with oftentimes vestiges of the 

 mustache and tufts at knees and the points of the hocks 

 by which the old Flanders horse was characterized. 

 There is a wide range of colors in the Shire, bay, brown, 

 and black being most common, gray and chestnut not 

 unusual and roans occasional, all considerably marked 



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