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result of this union created a superior strain of draft horses for 

 .that time, and they met with special favor during the latter part 

 of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century. 

 Breeders valued the influence of the Lochlyoch blood, and this 

 is now regarded as essentially Clydesdale foundation stock. The 

 mares descended from this Flemish stallion are described as 

 " generally browns and blacks, with white faces and a little white 

 on their legs ; they had gray hairs in their tails, along with 

 occasional gray hairs 

 over their bodies, and 

 invariably a white spot 

 on the belly, this latter 

 being regarded as a 

 mark of distinct purity 

 of blood." The Earl 

 of Dunmore, the first 

 president of the 

 Clydesdale Horse So- 

 ciety of Great Britain, 

 stated in 1878 ^ that 

 " the Lochlyoch stock 

 having been long 

 noted in the Upper 

 Ward (Lanarkshire) 

 and largely drawn up- 

 on by breeders, there is no doubt that to them, or, more 

 correctly, to the black horse of 171 5, the Clydesdale horse owes 

 its present distinctive character." 



The use of English blood on the Clydesdale, following the days 

 of Paterson up to comparatively recent times, is admitted by 

 Professor Wallace, a leading Scotch authority. Tintock, a Shire 

 stallion, along about i860 was used in Scotland on Clydesdale 

 mares, producing very excellent breeding females. The grandams 

 of the Prince of Wales were both Shires of English blood. In 

 1842 Professor Low commented on the distribution of the breed 

 and stated that they "have been mixed in blood with all the 

 other varieties." As recent as 19 19 more breeding of this kind 



iThe Cly^^^togp/teg^S^ondon, 1878. 



Fig. 50. Baron's Pride (9122), one of the greatest 

 recent Clydesdale sires in Scotland. From photo- 

 graph by A. Brown & Company, Lanark, Scotland 



