192 MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



Keir Peggy, the dam of ten foals and with a great show- 

 yard career, is regarded as one of the greatest brood mares 

 of the breed. Darnley was born in 1872, and purchased 

 as a three-year-old by David Riddell, the owner of Prince 

 of Wales. Darnley was successful in the show ring and 

 famous as a sire. While Prince of Wales was a great sire 

 of sires, Darnley was noted as a sire of dams, and both 

 did much to improve the Clydesdale breed. Darnley's 

 most famous sons were MacGregor (1487), Flashwood 

 (3604), and Top Gallant (1850). MacGregor's sons did 

 much to improve the Clydesdales of the United States 

 and Canada. 



Baron's Pride (9122). — This horse was sired by Sir 

 Everard (5353), by Top Gallant (1850), and out of Forest 

 Mollie (4740), by Pretender (599). He was born in 1890, 

 and is described as brown in color with white stripe on 

 face and white feet. Though criticized as being narrow 

 in the chest and feminine in appearance, yet he is the most 

 famous sire of the present time, and his 225 get, re- 

 corded in the Scotch Clydesdale Stud Book, is approx- 

 imately twice as many as credited to any other sire. His 

 noted son, Baron of Buchlyvie (11263), out of Young 

 Maybloom (12603), by Knight Errant (4483), stands 

 second in the list of sires, with 1 10 get recorded to his 

 credit. 



Baron of Buchlyvie was born in 1900 and sold as a 

 three-year-old for an equivalent of $3,750, and in 191 1 he 

 was sold at Ayr, Scotland, for $47,500, the highest price 

 ever paid for a horse of draft breeding. Benedict 

 (10315), another son of Baron's pride, was a noted show 

 animal in Scotland, and was imported to Fort Wayne, 

 Indiana, in 1900, where he stood at the head of the Brook- 

 side Farm stud until 1904, when he was returned to Scot- 

 land. The greatest breeders and owners of Clydesdale 

 draft horses are A. and W. Montgomery of Netherhall 

 and Bank, Kirkcudbright, Scotland. 



