The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-31
'uNg OF KINGS HORSES HERE.
ann ROTHsCHILD ALSO JOINS
nv A SHOW COLLECTION.

v,,,s winners Arriving on the Min,
W n.,onks WIN he Seen in Canada
.nd Kansas ~City-They Are Of the
shire Breed. and Are PTize winners.
r., aristocratio horses landed here
-.,,srdav direct from the country estates
yKing Edward VII. and Lord Rothschild.
INV came on the steamer Minnetonka
~ ara Shire horses, once the great horse
y ,ha armored knights at the wars and
,msments and now the leading breed
w. draneht purposes in England Nine OF
~ ~, ,ot have long records as winners at Eng
s.S shows OF Shire or C~lydesdale stock, the
IA ons being a weanling Ally only once
.snun at Peterborough and q second prize
winner.
' The consignment only stayed In New
York long enough to cross the dock from the
,,samer to an express car on q float, setting
st for Canada by way Of Jersey City last
.ssnino They will be exhibited, but not
.0tsrad for competition, at the horse shows
m Toronto, August 27 to September 9; OF
4 awa, September I to is; London, Septem-
har II to 20, and at the Kansas City live stock
! ,how. beginning October 7.
The express car had a registered weight
arriving capacity OF $4,000 pounds and the
han horses made the floor beams oreak.
The ten arc valued at $4,000 by the head
troom. but none can be sold, a. they are
| noded to be returned to England. They
ara insured in England in excess Of the ap-
4 proximated valuation.
lord Rothsohild owns five and King
Edward as many, his consignment being
three FLIES and a pair Of geldings, all bred
At sandrngham The geidings are as big
and heavy a pair as New Workers have
aver seen. standing over II hands, netting
over a ton each.
.Oi ave never 'ad them weighed said
Timothy Cook, the head groom, who had
rlddy cheeks and was in riding CATERS
and breeches, but Oh know they are hover
4 ton all told"
They are broken to harness, but will
only be shown to halter. The Kings geld
ings are a five-year-old brown, first prize
winner at Peterborough show this year,
and a six-year-old bay, by Salisbury and
usndsire Premier. The two geldings
would bring at least $1,000 apiece in the
Bulls Head marts at sight. The three
uar-old FLY Tacsonia and the two-year-
Old Perseverance are browns with white
ielocks, and by the Kings stallion Calwich
Bend. Yearlings by this sire sell at public
auction for 81 800 and the FLIES have weight
and character, besides a show ring record.
The Kings yearling is also a brown, Buscot
winner at Derby and Peterborough. This
WIS a fractions one in the unloading, hav-
iS to be forced down the gangplank with
blocks and ropes and blindfolded to be led
into the express car. The trio of FLIES
ss worth from 81 900 to $40, 900.
Lord Rothschild sends the brown stallion
Gtton Charmer, junior champion OF the
London Shire Horse Show Of 1904 and cham
pon in 1905. His sire is Mormaer of Bats
BE was let for a high price to the Louth
Feeding Society in 1905 and to the ketter-
hg Breeding Society this year. An offer Of
$4,000 would not buy Girton Charmer. The
guest in carriage and general appearance
{ the companion stallion, Premvictor. by
Bury Chief Victor, and an equally valuable
one. They are both over II hands and
q massive conformation. In Lord Roths-
'Bythwood Guelder Roee and ~weanling
fly, Informally christened in transit Queen
Of the Roses, and the yearling colt Kinsman,
, brown with Haze face. by Thrupp's Rival.
The horses came direct from Sandring-
ham and Lord Rothschild's farm, Tring
Place, in Herts. Squire Beck of Peter
borough and Head Groom Cook we're in
barge There we're a half dozen stable
lands with the horses, who we're as ready
tr a tip before answering a question as
he porters on an English station platform.
Al the horses were In fine condition and
coats. The fetlocks were as hairy
II the names and tails.
There have not been any Shire stations
ID the New York show since 1900, but the
lew to be seen here were ponies in COM
.Rrson with these elephantine importa-
ions. The draught teams and pairs at the
New York show are trimmed in accordance
With American ideas, and they are usually
Of Percheron or Clydesdale stock. There are
many Shire horses in Canada and the West,
however, including some closely related
IN breeding to those to be exhibited. The
importation, it is thought, will stimulate
the breeding from Shire horses, In prefer