Horses--Breeding
Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selbourne from Walter Peacock, 25 April 1916
Peacock thanks Lord Selbourne for his interest in the breeding experiments with Dartmoor ponies and old Devon packhorses. He is preparing a memorandum of their current work and plans for the future which he will send to Selbourne and also to Ewart, whom Peacock wishes to consult regarding the application of Mendelian principles to the pack horse. He goes on to describe the breeding work in South Devon between a Norfolk-Roadster stallion and mares with packhorse pedigrees.
Milk-White Hunter Mare, 9 Years Old, by "Bonaparte", 1870s-1930s
Photograph of the 9 year-old, milk-white Hunter mare by "Bonaparte" standing in a paddock with her foal in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes that the hunter mare was bred in Yorkshire and sold by J H Stokes, Leicestershire to J B Thorneycroft, Netherplace, Mauchline to breed hunters. The foal was born in 1904; by "The Rush," a dark chestnut by "Barcaldine," out of "Whirlpool."
Newspaper clippings concerning the Congested Districts Board horse breeding scheme, 1908
Note entitled 'Bionach or Biorach', 1894
Notebook recording progress of Ewart's horse and sheep breeding experiments, 1895-1922
Notebook written in from both ends. Title page is inscribed 'Foal Book 1895' and 'Sheep Book 1922'. Contains detailed handwritten diary entries and illustrations recording observations on the zebra-horse breeding experiments known as 'The Penycuik Experiments', tstetse fly experiments, the Roman camp at Newstead and sheep breeding experiments. The back of the volume contains some notes from Ewart's reading.
Notes relating to the pony cross-breeding programme of the Congested Districts Board, 14 January 1908
The notes chiefly consist of quotations from newspaper reports relating to the introduction of 'new blood' into the crofters' ponies by the Congested Districts Board in a bid to improve the native stock.
Photographic print, mounted on card, of Ewart with zebra/horse hybrid, Romulus, c.1899
This photograph likely dates from around the time of The Penycuik Experiments, although the image does not appear in that work. The card mount is marked 'Charles Reid, Gloucester' and bears signs of having been glued to another surface.
Photographic print, mounted on card, of 'Romulus' a zebra/horse hybrid foal and his dam, c.1896
This image appeared printed in The Penycuik Experiments (1899). The card mounting here displays signs of being glued within a surround or frame.
Postcard to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel Edward Donald Malcom, 16th Laird of Poltalloch, 13 May 1907
Malcolm states that he will arrange to have his stallion 'Parakh' sent to Ewart once he has covered one of his mares and hopes that his pony 'Grizel' is proving useful to Ewart's research.
Small notebook about physical condition of horses and births of foals, 1902-1908
Notebook written in from both ends.