- The
Shire is a
breed of
draught horse originally from England. The
Shire has a
great capacity for weight-pulling; it was used for farm work, to tow barges...
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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...
- 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...
- show
competition quarter horse inducted into the
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Sampson,
tallest horse, a
Shire horse standing 21.25
hands (86.5...
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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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Arabian Shan
Horse or Shan
Myinn Shire horse Siciliano indigeno Silesian horse Sindhi horse Slovenian Cold-blood
Sorraia Sokolski horse South German Coldblood...
- In 1927, the last of the
Thwaites shire horses left the Brewery. [citation needed] By the 1950s, the
shire horse had
practically ceased to exist. However...
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barges up and down canals. Old
Billy was said to look like a big cob/
shire horse, and was
brown with a
white blaze.
Billy died on 27
November 1822 at...
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modern Shire and Clydesdale.
Unlike the
equine conformational flaw of cow-hockedness,
where only the
lower leg is
turned outward, a
Gypsy Horse's entire...
- 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...
