No longer was there the wiry pony, but the ponderous shire horse was evolved to carry the knight.
Hingleys used 6 of its own horses - massive animals weighing over a ton in weight the equivalent to a shire horse.
By the 1950s the shire horse had practically ceased to exist.
From 1980 the company owned a famous prize winning shire horse team.
Everybody knows that in regard to shire horses and hackneys the standards of the show ring are very strong and would die very hard.
I also fear that it will tend to supersede shire horses.
Yet he is passionately pro-hunting, though not himself a hunter—a horse could not be found that was stout enough for him, and shire horses, although stout, are not fast enough.
In keeping with this sense of history and tradition, the brewery keeps a small team of dapple-grey shire horses.
