- The
Shire is a
British breed of
draught horse. It is
usually black, bay, or grey. It is a tall breed, and
Shires have at
various times held
world records...
- A
draft horse (US) or
draught horse (UK), also
known as dray
horse, carthorse, work
horse or
heavy horse, is a
large horse bred to be a
working animal...
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Sampson (later
renamed Mammoth) was a
Shire horse gelding born in 1846 and bred by
Thomas Cleaver at
Toddington Mills, Bedfordshire, England. According...
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decided to put
their shire horses 'out to gr****' and
switch to
motor transport. In 1927, the last of the
Thwaites shire horses were led out of the brewery...
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aimed at
improving the
standard of
Shire horses in the
Ashbourne area.
Originally known as the
Ashbourne Cart
Horse Society,
later that year, it held its...
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horse cannot be a bad colour, so roan
horses and
horses with
white areas on the body are acceptable. "Standard of
Points for Shires". The
Shire Horse...
- 1,000
kilograms (1,540 to 2,200 lb). The
largest horse in
recorded history was
probably a
Shire horse named Mammoth, who was born in 1848. He
stood 21...
- Dent,
amongst others,
wrote that the
Friesian horse was the
ancestor of both the
British Shire horse and Fell pony, however, this is speculation. It...
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Arabian Shan
Horse or Shan
Myinn Shire horse Siciliano indigeno Silesian horse Sindhi horse Slovenian Cold-blood
Sorraia Sokolski horse South German Coldblood...
- Major, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer), a
shire horse (Boxer), two
mares (Mollie and an
unnamed black horse that is
implied to be Clover), a
Border collie...
