Ashbourne Foal Show, 80 Attention to feet, 42 Aurea, champion mare, 18, 65 Author’s Preface, v Average prices, 76 B Back breeding, value of, 11, 13, 39 Bakewell, Robert, 2, 22, 54 Bardon Extraordinary, champion gelding, 65, 78 Bardon Stud, 118 Bar None, 80 Bearwardcote Blaze, 60 Bedding, 35 Birdsall Menestrel, 84, 111 ---- stud, 110 Black horses, Bakewell’s, 55 Black horses from Flanders, 58 Blagdon Stud, 110 Blending Shire and Clydesdale breeds, 59 Boiled barley, 36 Bradley, Mr. John, 83 Bramhope stud, 111 Breeders, farmer, 27 Breeders, prizes for, 65 Breeding from fillies, 17 Breeding, time for, 31 Bury Victor Chief, champion in 1892 … 68, 69 Buscot Harold, champion stallion, 17, 65 C Calwich Stud, 61, 80 Canada, 101 Carbonite, 103 Care of the feet, 42 Carlton Stud, 116 Cart-colts, 23 Cart-horses, 54 Castrating colts, 39 Certificate of Soundness, 62 Champion’s Goalkeeper, champion in 1913 and 1914 … 67, 104 Champions bred at Sandringham, 3 Cheap sires, 12 Clark, Mr. A. H., 79 Clydesdales, 58 Coats of mail, 51 Coke’s, Hon. E., dispersion sale, 3 Colonies, 94 Colour, 38 Composition of food, 33 Condition and bloom, 36 Cost of feeding, 33 Cost of shipping Shires, 98 Crisp, Mr. F., 63, 70 Cross, Mr. J. P., 81 Crushed oats and bran, 31 D Dack’s Matchless, 82, 116 Danesfield Stonewall, 114 Details of shows, 60 Development grant, 14 Devonshire, Duke of, 109 Doubtful breeders, 37 Draught horses, 23 Drayman XXIII, 117 Drew, Lawrence, of Merryton, 59 Duncombe, Mr. A. C., 69, 80 Dunsmore Chessie, 81, 105 ---- Gloaming, 3, 72 ---- Jameson, 80 ---- Stud, 80 E Eadie, Mr. James, 65, 78 Early breeding, 17 Eaton Hall Stud, 109 Eaton Nunsuch, 109 Edgcote Shorthorn Company’s Stud, 108 Effect of war on cost of feeding, 40 Egerton of Tatton, Lord, 2, 77 Ellesmere, Earl of, 2, 7, 70 Elsenham Cup, 18, 79 Elsenham Hall Stud, 119 English cart-horse, 2 Entries at London shows, 61 Everard, Mr. B. N., 118 Ewart, Mr. T., 117 Exercise, 23, 27 Export trade, 92, 95 F Facts and figures, 61 Fattening horses, 26 Feet, care of, 42 Fillies, breeding from, 17 Flemish horses, 1, 53, 57 Flora, by Lincolnshire Lad, 60 Foals, time for, 31 Foals, treatment of, 32 Foods and feeding, 30 Formation of Shire Horse Society, 13 Forshaw, Mr. James, 80, 116 Foundation stock, 9 Founding a stud, 8 Freeman-Mitford, Mr., now Lord Redesdale, 62 Future outlook, 21 G Gaer Conqueror, 112 Galbraith, Mr. A., 92 Geldings at the London Show, 64 ----, demand for, 15, 24