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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.....

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...

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...

English Black Horse into the Black Horse of Leicestershire, a forerunner of the Shire Horse of the Midlands. The Old English Black Horse heavily influenced...

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...

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...

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...

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...

versions. Robert Bakewell bred the Improved Black Cart horse, which later became a Shire horse. Several buildings in Loughborough are named after Bakewell...

century. The Blaisdon Stud Farm was the home of the world's largest shire horse, "Blaisdon Conqueror". His bones are in the British Museum. Blaisdon...

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...

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...

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...

of historic vehicles, a working steam engine, a micro brewery and a shire horse collection. On 18 March 2008, Coors announced that it was to close the...

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...