The Shire Horse in Peace and War

by J. Albert Frost

Honour waits, o’er all the Earth

Through endless generations,

The art that calls her harvests forth

And feeds the expectant nations.”

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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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