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Shire Society Show, sold for 3700 guineas, or about ^18,500, 

 at the dispersal sale of horses of the late Earl Egerton of Tatton, 

 Cheshire, England. In this sale 21 head sold for an average 

 price of about I2325. The stallion Dan Patch 9856 (28815), 

 foaled in 1905 and champion at the International Live Stock Ex- 

 position in 19 10, was sold during the show by Truman's Pioneer 

 Stud Farm of Illinois, importers, for ^10,000. In 191 1 the mare 

 Bellingsborough Belle sold at auction in England for ^6200, 

 the high price for a Shire mare up to that time. In March, 



191 3, the two-year-old stallion Childwick Champion (22215) sold 

 at Lord Rothschild's sale for ^20,664. At the dispersal sale 

 of the Tring Park stud in England in 191 5 the average price 

 received for 47 ani- 

 mals of both sexes was 

 $2822, the average for 

 32 stallions and colts 

 being$36i4. In 1918 

 the five-months-old 

 horse foal Pendley 

 Goalkeeper sold in 

 England for ;^7ooo. 

 In various sales held 

 in England in 19 16 

 Shire stallions sold up to ^15,000, Norbury Menestrel bringing 

 this price at the sale of the late L. Solomon. Many Shire mares 

 and fillies have sold at prices ranging from $750 to ^2000. 



Associations to promote the Shire horse are comparatively young. 

 The English Cart Horse Society was organized in 1878, essen- 

 tially to promote the Shire, and in 1884 it changed its name to 

 that of the Shire Horse Society. Up to January, 1919, this 

 society had published thirty-nine volumes of studbooks and had 

 registered 126,437 animals. ' As long ago as 1898 the society 

 had 2237 members. The annual show of the society is the great- 

 est single-breed horse show in Great Britain, some 700 horses 

 usually being exhibited. The Shire Horse Society of Canada 

 published Volume I of its studbook in 1901 and Volume III in 



1914. The American Shire Association was organized in 1885, and 



up to January, 19 19, has published twelve volumes of studbooks. 

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Fig. 61. Placing awards on Shires at the Royal 

 Show, England. From photograph by the author 



