{"id":45498,"date":"2025-01-22T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ehorses.com\/magazine\/?p=45498"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:57","slug":"clydesdale","status":"publish","type":"horse-breed","link":"https:\/\/www.ehorses.com\/magazine\/horse-breed\/clydesdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Clydesdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The big, bonny Clydesdale Horse is a famous draft horse breed from Scotland. The breed was created in the eighteenth century to work mainly in industry. These heavy horses also worked in agriculture, plowing the land and drawing carts. Powerful and good-natured, the Clydesdale Horse soon became popular as a work horse in many other countries. Though they once existed in tens of thousands, the Clydesdale Horse is a rare sight today. However, enthusiasts are working hard to make sure these gorgeous horses do not become extinct.<\/strong><\/p>

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History and Origins of the Clydesdale Horse<\/h2>

Clydesdales are named after the River Clyde in Scotland. This river flows through the region of Lanarkshire. The breed was developed here in the late eighteenth century<\/b>, at first by a local farmer named Paterson who had a large, strong black stallion. Later, the local landowner, the Duke of Hamilton, who owned coal mines in the area, is said to have imported big strong Flemish stallions which were bred to the local mares. Many of these mares were Galloways working as farm and pack horses<\/b>. These strong, hardy, pony-sized animals were already vital to the local economy. They were powerful enough to carry loads of coal from the collieries on pack saddles.\u00a0<\/p>

The breeders of the Clydesdale had additional intentions for the new horses. They would draw coal carts on the new hard road surfaces <\/b>that were being created across Britain. More local farmers and horse breeders began to produce the new larger horses, which were not given the name \u201cClydesdales\u201d until 1826. The Clydesdale became the draft horse of choice<\/b> for many in Scotland and Northern England. In fact, the Clydesdale was the first British draft horse breed to get its own stud book, beating the equally famous English Shire Horse.\u00a0<\/p>

In 1878, a year after the founding of the Clydesdale Horse Society, the first publication of stallions and mares and youngstock of the breed was made available. Due to their strength and gentle nature<\/b>, the horses also became popular across the British Empire, particularly in Canada and Australia, where there were large populations of Scots. They commanded high prices<\/b>, too. Only when the combustion engine began to take over the jobs previously carried out by horses, did the Clydesdale Horse begin to lose its popularity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom being common across the world in their thousands, the global population of Clydesdales is now just 5000 horses. This puts them into the \u201cat-risk\u201d and \u201cvulnerable to extinction\u201d categories. They are on the watch list of organizations, such as the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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