Hackney horse
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hackney Mare, "Rosadora", 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/392
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the Hackney mare, "Rosadora" who was the champion at the Hackney Society Show, London in 1900 and 1904 and won a special prize in 1907. She was owned by Charles Galbraith, Terregles, Dumfries, Scotland.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Thomas Dykes, 02 March 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/23
Scope and Contents
Dykes offers his opinions on what horses are best to cross with, choosing the modern Hackney and an Arab Highland cross. He says he will inform Ewart about the white maned mare which belongs to a carting contractor whose stables are in Portobello.
There is also a copy, in Dykes' hand, of the programme for the Highland and Agricultural Society, Inverness Show, 1839 and a copy of a letter to Dykes on behalf of Lord Lovat about a pony stallion 'Alan Kingsburgh'.
Dates:
02 March 1904