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...

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...

decided to put their shire horses 'out to grass' and switch to motor transport. In 1927, the last of the Thwaites shire horses were led out of the brewery...

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...

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...

up shire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shire is a type of regional division in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations. Shire may...

Arabian Shan Horse or Shan Myinn Shire horse Siciliano indigeno Silesian horse Sindhi horse Slovenian Cold-blood Sorraia Sokolski horse South German Coldblood...

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...

The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire is an inland area settled...

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...

since 1900 and which estate the family farmed until 1933; they were also Shire horse breeders. James William Welch was among the principal landowners at Ickleton...

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...

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...

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...

nineteenth century, Shire blood was introduced.: 50  The first recorded use of the name "Clydesdale" for the breed was in 1826; the horses spread through much...

baronet in 1914. The Great Horse, or The War Horse: from the time of the Roman Invasion till its development into the Shire Horse. (London: Vinton & Co.....

Sir Andrew's Ague Cheek's horse in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4 Castor, one of the team of Shire horses owned by farmer Dawson in...

amalgamation of parts of the Shire of Euroa, Shire of Goulburn, Shire of Violet Town, Shire of McIvor and Rural City of Seymour. The Shire is governed and administered...

through to shire horses where he purchased champion shire horse stallion Tatton Dray King to breed from, and also had his own string of shire stallions...

Wandsworth town centre and the river is the site of Young & Co's Ram Brewery. Shire horse-drawn brewery drays were still used to deliver beer to local pubs. Whilst...

Sabino 1 has not been found in the Arabian horse, Clydesdale, Thoroughbred, Standardbred horse, or Shire horse. The Sabino 1 allele is not linked to any...

Gypsy Cob and Shire stock.: 434  It may be registered with the International Drum Horse Association or with the Gypsy Cob and Drum Horse Association. In...

kind, dedicated, extremely strong, hard-working, and respectable cart-shire horse, although quite naive and gullible. Boxer does a large share of the physical...

Wandsworth by shire horse. "Spotted Horse". positivelyputney.co.uk/. Positively Putney. Retrieved 8 December 2021. "Hire The Spotted Horse". www.venuescanner...

horses by the brewery: its team of Shire horses was retired from delivery work and given a new career with the head horsekeeper, offering heavy horse...

1911 was drawn through the streets of Netherton on a wagon drawn by 20 shire horses. Noah Hingley started making cable chain for ships at Cradley in the...

bought Amberley Court Farm in Rockfield in the early 1950s. Originally a Shire horse breeding centre, they ran it as a livestock farm, with 500 pigs and a...

site for animal rescue at West Runton, formerly occupied by the Norfolk Shire Horse Centre. Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan was...

July 2015). "18hh Shire joins brewery team". Horse & Hound. Retrieved 4 June 2016. Burrows (27 April 2015). "Wadworth Brewery Shire Horses Make Us A Special...