1922.] 



The Clydesdale. 



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quality and weight which was in risk of being lost when the 

 Prince of Wales-Darnley cross was in the ascendant. Since the 

 days of Sir Everard 5353 (1885-1898) his race has dominated 

 the breed. He sired Baron's Pride 9122 (1890-1912) the 

 soundest and best wearing sire the breed has produced. His 

 feet and limbs were perfect in respect of wearing qualities. His 

 limbs in the last vears of his life were as " sweet " and clean 

 and the bone as sharply defined- as when he was champion at the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society's Show at Aberdeen, in 

 1894. The Clydesdale breed in so far as the showyard is con- 

 cerned is dominated by the influence of Baron's Pride. His 

 grandson Dunure Footprint 15203 is the most prolific known 

 sire of the breed. His service fees for several seasons have been 

 £60 payable at service, and £60 additional for every mare left 

 in foal. 



On the Prince of Wales 673 side the most outstanding 

 modern sire has easily been Hiawatha 10067 (1892-1915). He 

 was got by Prince Eobert 7135, a son of Prince of Wales 673, 

 and bears the record of being the most successful show horse 

 of the breed. His daughters mated very successfully with 

 Baron's Pride 9122 and Baron's Pride's daughters mated very 

 successfully with Hiawatha 10067, but while Baron's Pride 

 was the ideal typical Clydesdale with faultless feet and limbs 

 and well ribbed, with a beautifully set head and neck and high 

 withers, albeit rather light in the thighs and lacking muscular 

 development there, Hiawatha 10067 set a new type in Clydes- 

 dales. He was himself a " tall " horse. He came very slowly 

 to maturity and always appeared a little "leggy." He had 

 perfectly formed hind limbs and bones which looked like ivory. 

 No one of the older race of Clvdesdale fanciers or owners, that 

 is the men of about 1850-1900 ever thought of speaking of a 



tall ' ' horse ; their ideal was ever the ' - thick ' ' horse — big 

 when lying down. Hiawatha made the " tall " horse popular, 

 and to-day a slowly-maturing colt with broad, flat, thin, clean 

 bones is not found fault with, even should he be a little " on 

 the leg." Granted he is out of the short-legged, deep-ribbed, 

 sound-footed and sound-limbed type of mare, he is more 

 favoured by judges than the short-legged thick colt which is 

 pronounced "old fashioned." 



Popularity of the Breed.— The Clydesdale has for well nigh 

 a century been in demand for export. Hence his prominence 

 especially in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. During 

 the years from 1850 to about 1880 a fair number of the best 



