Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-23

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There was another breed of horses in
Suffolk and Norfolk, how they came
there is somewhat difficult to ascertain,
well fitted both for the saddle and
drauyht. have seen cart horse Of this
description, which. batinga little coarse
ness of the head, was perhaps as sup
posed On third edtion) tit to get hacks
aud hunters from proper mares AS the
best bied horse alive. This last clause
is omitted in the third edition. | have
also heard of Norfolk farmer who,
about fifty years ago that is, in the irst
half or middle of the elgh' eenth century J,
had peculiar sort which he styled his
Brazil breed. This blade of farmer
would, 1t seems, unharnesS one OF ms
plOw horses. ride hun to neighhorlhg
tair. and after winning with him
leather plate, ride HIM home again in
triumph to his wife,
THE MODERN TYPE OF THE HACKNEY
HORSE.
In the quotation already given from the
"rreatise on Horses" mention is made of
the system of breedll & in Norfolk, which
had resulted before the year 1896 in the
sending out of supply of superior Hack
ney horses. The good effect of the hap.
pv combination of diverse breeds con
Times to the present day, and gives to
the world the type of horses variously
known rs English lIackneys, roadsters
and cobs.
The columns of the Norwich Mercury
have proved to be mine of hidden wealth,
that new spaper, circulating in all parts of
Norfolk and Cambridgeshirc, being from
the year 1850 to 1890 apparently the fa-
vorite medium for the announcing Of
rounds to be made by thoroughbred and
trottng stations. Its information have
supplemented by advertisements to be
found in the Norfolk Chronicle.
The origin of the modern type of Hack
ney is undoubtedly to be sought in one
horse, variously known more than CEN
fury ago as the Schales' Horse, Shields,
or Shales. the sire of the better known
Scots or Schales' Horse. The first ap-
pears in the English Hackney Stud Book
as the Original Shales, the latter as Scot
Shales. have, however, been able only
I
which these, and many other old horses.
were foaled u John Lawrence, in the first
edition of his Treatise, says: "The re-
nOwncd Blank may be looked upon as the
father of trotters. since from his bastard
son Old Shields, or Scott, the trotting
stallion, have proceeded the best and the
greatest number of horses of that quali-
cation" (Vol. l., p. 234.) In the third
edition '(Nol. l.. PIP. 3434), he correct-
this statement, so that it reads "'The re-
nowned Blank may be looked upon IA. the
father ofFtrottcrs, since from his bastard
son Old Shields, and from Scot. the trotting
stations, have proceeded the best and
greatest number of horses of that qualli
cation Scot was got by Shields. out OF
a hunting mare, and died about 1906" III
his history %. l72), he says: "Our owl
trotting tannals do not extend very re-
motley, but tradition informs us that Ole
Shields, sire of Scot, the first trottinq
stallion Of emnence of which we have
any account, and which covered in Lin
colnshire half century since, was got
by Blank out of strong common-brec
mare" In contribution to the Sporting
Magazine of June, 1921, he repeated hi
first statement, only to correct it in the
next issue, when he says;
Since my last letter on this SUBJECT
having occasion to look further among
my memorandum, tind have not beer
quite accurate. Scot was not the same
horse. bur son of Old Shields. out OF :
hunting mare, aS was informed in lSO
by IA considerable dealer, who chiefly
made his purchases IN Lincolnshire ant
Norfolk.
1t may thus be taken as fact that :
horse known as Shales or Shields Horst
was the first noteworthy trOtting Hack
ney stallion of the modern type. y few
words presently as to the description o
the mare which produced him. First o
all has to be settled the question of hi
pltcrnity.- Lawrence says, in the tlisto
nv. the sire was "the Duke of Anca>ter'
Blank" registered in the Stud Book "A
bred by Lord Godolphin, foa,ed l14O. dice
IN l7Gs--son of the Godolphin Arabian
out of Little Hartley mare, which wa
got, by Bartley's Childers, out of Large
Hartley mare-a mare rich in Barb anC
Arab blood. That Blank was the sire o
the Original Shales. Lawrence admits was
matter of tradition only. Fortunately
have found yet more trustworthy, be
cause older, information, i'm print, which
may be accepted as of greater value than
tradition. But. as the elements of BLOOD
are very similar, Blank might be accepted
just as readily as Blaze, the horse whicl
believe the evidence warrants me in re
cording as the thoroughbred sire. The
information is found in old advertise
ments inserted in the Norwich Mercury
of April 4, l772, repeated in the two fol
lowing weekly issues, and again, with al
alteration of the year, on March 2O.and p
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