NOTES ABOUT THE CLYDESDALES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 14

NOTES ABOUT THE CLYDESDALES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) GLASGOW, June 5. The Clydesdale interest is as buoyant as ever Breeders at home here are in the best of heart, and first-class etock are as difficult to purchase as at any period in the h story of the breed. It is true that expectations are on a comparatively small scale; but the may in full be accounted lo>- by the international situation and the inadequate accommodation on board oceangoing liners. A few horses have recently gone° to Canada and the United States of America, and have arrived safely at their dost nations. Another indication of tho prosperity attending the Clydesdale breed 18 the fact that to many men the fees for leading sires are prohibitive. Danure Footprint (15?u3) is away in the region of £SO for a foal., and at that he had the offer of more mares than he could serve. The 5000 gu'noa Bonnie Buchlyvie (14032), owned bv Mr James Kilpatrick, is also at a hisrh' figure, and his lists were more than full long before hie season as stud horse at Craigie Mains, Kilmarnock, commenced. Armkwa (14567). the great breeding son of "TTawatha (10067), and perhaps the out-cross from the Baron's Pride (91?2) line of blood, is as popular as ever, wis pin. TVumcross Rad ; ent. winner of the Cawdor Cup, is also to breed well. Many or'-ie- stallions could be placed in the same

cnt"srory. But it is not only breeding stock that are mak'ng money in those days. In an English anrieultural iournal this week there is ?reat mh'latinn over a Shire gelding reachins- fl ic o OHvdesdnle geldings have exceeded that r>ric". and quite a number have

ohnnsrod hnnd= ->t as many guineas. At a recent d-pnlonishine sale up north the geld;n<r« soM for £MZ, £115.. £ll4, and othera from tn £lO6 At the ordinary sales » r Jm-r. b«"-n =r>lling round about £l5O. An A'V>rdoon«h ; rr.'lir- , d yeldrng by Gallant Stewart F*W*). rising two voars old. mads the rPHT'IjiW" r>r ; o« of £ll3. Then again it the A ■cr)or-5 1 "nn nf thn Halkorton Mains (norir Laurono'-lri'rk) stock a four-year-old ntrp. went r or £157. a six-year-old sold for flilO a fiv« voar-nld realised £l4O. and ■mother four-veir-old broucht £152. It will tbna Tv» soon fhnt five horsee, all accustomed to work in the cart and olouqrh, tho or.ior.Hid average of £l4l 16s. TVs 'Jo something- for the Shire men to .--'" to.

Mr Jamep n-»rk. Netherlea. Cathcart, 01i=o-<~'Tr h«« the powerfunv-built twovonr -VI pWWrlolo colt F'tfest Blend 'io-"OA> +o "Vf Willinrn Mciklem, Bcjrg, K; r rVpnlrl-<7 who ffi sending him to a client ."n TST"w Tin's is truly a great ooH hirlt upon the proper lines ■»!>'• ntii»' , > in every point. He wns hred tit",. *ir. Speir. late of Wraithv:ii r*~*-''*"n. now at Cotham Grange, Nfnwirk "Votta. TTis sire is the celebrated C*nn champion Dnnure Footprint ne,ru\x> V's d*m is Blossom of Dearham ■CTnli b" tint groat horse Anehenflowr f 100/171 tVo csi r< . of the d.im of Ihm„r" F''>^+-"'- : ti+ <Tranr?-r?am of this colt „-„* tt of TT, rr) p r lnr,rl (36455.), by fV,o Dt-tiUt roooi horso Fastfiold Stamp 'A7071 q V> ; <r. nowerful rmn-r nri7e= in his time. Finest Blond has fTioreforr. Jn V,''m n grand combination o! fV,r- V.PQ+ M *""""' nnsurfnsr weight and eube+inro !n oomh-'nit'on with the highest rnd : r"hi«)l m»r't in point of nualitv. He was i" the show- Inet a-t the Scottish StalUnn °lmw : r> AT->reh last at Glasgow, and For Wine imd «mh«iinoe he has few equal* -,m""o- iitt'tttiTo of his aq-e. He should be & oW-Von" nm-iisiUnn to the Clydesdale breed in New Zealand.