INDEX

A

Alston Rose, champion mare 1901 … 104

Armour-clad warriors, 1, 7

Army horses, 6

Ashbourne Foal Show, 80

Attention to feet, 42

Aurea, champion mare, 18, 65

Author’s Preface, v

Average prices, 76

B

Back breeding, value of, 11, 13, 39

Bakewell, Robert, 2, 22, 54

Bardon Extraordinary, champion gelding, 65, 78

Bardon Stud, 118

Bar None, 80

Bearwardcote Blaze, 60

Bedding, 35

Birdsall Menestrel, 84, 111

—— stud, 110

Black horses, Bakewell’s, 55

Black horses from Flanders, 58

Blagdon Stud, 110

Blending Shire and Clydesdale breeds, 59

Boiled barley, 36

Bradley, Mr. John, 83

Bramhope stud, 111

Breeders, farmer, 27

Breeders, prizes for, 65

Breeding from fillies, 17

Breeding, time for, 31

Bury Victor Chief, champion in 1892 … 68, 69

Buscot Harold, champion stallion, 17, 65

C

Calwich Stud, 61, 80

Canada, 101

Carbonite, 103

Care of the feet, 42

Carlton Stud, 116

Cart-colts, 23

Cart-horses, 54

Castrating colts, 39

Certificate of Soundness, 62

Champion’s Goalkeeper, champion in 1913 and 1914 … 67, 104

Champions bred at Sandringham, 3

Cheap sires, 12

Clark, Mr. A. H., 79

Clydesdales, 58

Coats of mail, 51

Coke’s, Hon. E., dispersion sale, 3

Colonies, 94

Colour, 38

Composition of food, 33

Condition and bloom, 36

Cost of feeding, 33

Cost of shipping Shires, 98

Crisp, Mr. F., 63, 70

Cross, Mr. J. P., 81

Crushed oats and bran, 31

D

Dack’s Matchless, 82, 116

Danesfield Stonewall, 114

Details of shows, 60

Development grant, 14

Devonshire, Duke of, 109

Doubtful breeders, 37

Draught horses, 23

Drayman XXIII, 117

Drew, Lawrence, of Merryton, 59

Duncombe, Mr. A. C., 69, 80

Dunsmore Chessie, 81, 105

—— Gloaming, 3, 72

—— Jameson, 80

—— Stud, 80

E

Eadie, Mr. James, 65, 78

Early breeding, 17

Eaton Hall Stud, 109

Eaton Nunsuch, 109

Edgcote Shorthorn Company’s Stud, 108

Effect of war on cost of feeding, 40

Egerton of Tatton, Lord, 2, 77

Ellesmere, Earl of, 2, 7, 70

Elsenham Cup, 18, 79

Elsenham Hall Stud, 119

English cart-horse, 2

Entries at London shows, 61

Everard, Mr. B. N., 118

Ewart, Mr. T., 117

Exercise, 23, 27

Export trade, 92, 95

F

Facts and figures, 61

Fattening horses, 26

Feet, care of, 42

Fillies, breeding from, 17

Flemish horses, 1, 53, 57

Flora, by Lincolnshire Lad, 60

Foals, time for, 31

Foals, treatment of, 32

Foods and feeding, 30

Formation of Shire Horse Society, 13

Forshaw, Mr. James, 80, 116

Foundation stock, 9

Founding a stud, 8

Freeman-Mitford, Mr., now Lord Redesdale, 62

Future outlook, 21

G

Gaer Conqueror, 112

Galbraith, Mr. A., 92

Geldings at the London Show, 64

——, demand for, 15, 24

——, production of, 15

Gilbey, Sir Walter, 2, 14, 51, 54, 119

Girton Charmer, champion in 1905 … 104

Glow, famous mare, 16, 119

Good workers, 23

Gould, Mr. James, 118

Grading up, 8

Grandage, Mr. A., 111

Green, Mr. E., 112

Greenwell, Sir Walpole, 105

Griffin, Mr. F. W., 79

H

Halstead Duchess VII., 107

Halstead Royal Duke, champion in 1909 … 68, 83

Haltering, 28

Hamilton, Duke of, importations, 58

Harold, 60

Hastings, Battle of, 53

Hay, 33

Heath, Mr. R., 85

Henderson’s, Sir Alexander, successes in 1898 … 64

Hendre Champion, 99

Hendre Crown Prince, 70, 99

Hereditary diseases, 76

High prices, 69

Highfield Stud, Leek, 112

History of the Shire, 51

Hitchin Conqueror, London champion, 1891, 62

Honest Tom, 74

Horse, population and the war, 18, 120

Horse-power cheapest, 123

Horses for the army, 6

Horses at Bannockburn, 52

How to show a Shire, 48

Hubbard, Mr. Matthew, 79

Huntingdon, Earl of, importations, 58

I

Importations from Flanders and Holland, 53, 57

Inherited complaints, 10

J

Judges at London Shire Shows, 1890-1915 … 87

K

Keene, Mr. R. H., 117

Keevil, Mr. Clement, 110

King Edward VII., 3, 73, 86, 102

King George, 114

L

Lady Victoria, Lord Wantage’s prize filly, 17

Land suitable, 45

Landlords and Shire breeding, 3, 15

Leading, 28

Lessons in showing, 50

Letting out sires, 14

Lincolnshire Lad 1196 … 59

Linseed meal, 36

Liverpool heavy horses 122

Llangattock, Lord, 5, 77

Local horse breeding societies, 15

Lockinge Cup, 78

Lockinge Forest King, 81

Lockington Beauty, 83

London Show, 61

Longford Hall sale, 3

Lorna Doone, 70, 104

M

McKenna, Mr. C. E., 118

Mackereth, Mr. H., 119

Management, 21, 23

Manger feeding, 33

Maple, Sir J. Blundell, 72

Marden Park Stud, 105

Mares, management of, 17

——, selection of, 8

Markeaton Royal Harold, 17, 60, 65

Marmion, 70

Mating, 20, 22

Members of Shire Horse Society, 63

Menestrel, 111

Michaelis, Mr. Max, 74

Middleton, Lord, 84, 110

Minnehaha, champion mare, 64

Mollington Movement, 106

Muntz, Mr. F. E., 113

Muntz, Sir P. Albert, 5, 72, 80

N

Nellie Blacklegs, 84

Nicholson, Sir Arthur, 74, 112

Norbury Menestrel, 114

Norbury Park Stud, 114

Numbers exported, 96

O

Oats, 33

Old English cart-horse, 2, 13, 51

—— —— war horse, 1, 50, 57

Origin and progress, 51

Outlook for the breed, 120

Over fattening, 26

P

Pailton Sorais, champion mare, 74, 112

Pedigrees, 8

Pendley Stud, 107

Ploughing, 2, 22, 57

Popular breed, a, 1

Potter, Messrs. J. E. and H. W., 115

Premier, 69, 84

Preparing fillies for mating, 18

Primley Stud, 106

Prince Harold, 77

Prince William, 69, 78

Prizes at Shire shows, 63

Prominent breeders, 103

—— Studs, 102

Prospects of the breed, 121

R

Rearing and feeding, 30

Records, a few, 77

Redlynch Forest King, 113

Registered sires, 13

Rent-paying horses, vi, 11, 124

Repository sales, 5

Rickford Coming King, 85

Rock salt, 35

Rogers, Mr. A. C., 67

Rokeby Harold, champion in 1893 and 1895 … 60, 66, 68

Roman invasion, 51

Rothschild, Lord, 68, 102, 103

Rowell, Mr. John, 69, 95

Russia, 93

S

Sales noted, 4, 76

Salomons, Mr. Leopold, 99

Sandringham Stud, 3, 73, 86

Scawby sale, 63

Select shipment to U.S.A., 102

Selecting the dams, 9

Selection of mares, 8

—— of sires, 12

Separating colts and fillies, 39

Sheds, 35

Shire Horse Society, 2, 13, 91, 93

Shire or war horse, 1, 51

—— sales, 69, 76

Shires for war, 6, 121

—— as draught horses, 1

——, feeding, 30

—— feet, care of, 42

—— for farm work, 1, 22

—— for guns, 6

——, formation of society, 13, 93

——, judges, 81

Shires, London Show, 61

——, management, 12

——, origin and progress of, 51

—— pedigrees kept, 8

——, prices, 69, 76

——, prominent studs, 103

——, sales of, 76

——, showing, 48

——, weight of, 6

——, working, 25

Show condition, 26

Show, London, 60

Showing a Shire, 48

Sires, selection of, 12

Smith-Carington, Mr. H. H., 73

Solace, champion mare, 3

Soils suitable for horse breeding, 45

Soundness, importance of, 9

Spark, 69

Stallions, 12

Starlight, champion mare 1891 … 62, 78

Stern, Sir E., 115

Street, Mr. Frederick, 2

Stroxton Tom, 116

Stud Book, 2, 13, 91

Stud, founding a, 8

Studs, present day, 103

—— sales, 4, 76

Stuffing show animals, 26, 37

Suitable foods and system of feeding, 30

Sutton-Nelthorpe, Mr. R. N., 63, 83

System of feeding, 30

T

Tatton Dray King, 71

—— Herald, 71

Team work, 23

“The Great Horse,” Sir Walter Gilbey’s book, 14, 51, 54

Training for show, 48

—— for work, 27

Treatment of foals, 32

Tring Park Stud, 4, 103

Two-year-old champion stallions, 67

Two-year-old fillies, 17

U

United States, Shires in the, 3, 92

Unsoundness, 10

V

Value of pedigrees, 8

—— of soundness, 10

Veterinary inspection, 62

Vulcan, champion in 1891 … 70, 79

W

Wantage, Lord, 2, 78

War demand, 121

War horse, vi, 51, 91

War and breeding, 18

Warton Draughtsman, 118

Wealthy stud-owners, 14

Weaning time, 33

Weight of Armoured Knight, 51

Weight of Shires, 6

Welshpool Shire Horse Society, 70

Westminster, Duke of, 109

What’s Wanted, 116

Whinnerah, Messrs. E. and J., 118

Whitley, Messrs. W. and H., 106

Williams, Mr. J. G., 107

Wintering, 40

—— foals, 35

Winterstoke, Lord, 86

Work of Shire Horse Society, 13, 60

Working stallions, 25

World’s war, v, 120

Worsley Stud, 7

Y

Yards, 35

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