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| In the mid-1980's, we acquired a beautiful 17.3 h Clydesdale mare, Belleau Shamrock. She had been part of Arthur Godfrey's estate, and, due to her age,(about 16 at the time), the person who inherited her was not interested in shipping her to his home in the western part of the U.S. We heard about her through our veterinarian, and eventually got the mare with her papers. |  |
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Bardrill Glenord |
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| She was a wonderful horse,
perfectly broken to drive, and we hoped to breed her at
least once. We tried many times with a couple of
different stallions, with no luck. Finally, the
veterinarians suggested that she would be more likely to
breed if we had a stallion on the farm with her. We had a
chance to buy an older horse from one of the breeders we
had visited, and brought him home in 1988, but we were
never to successfully breed Belleau Shamrock. Glenord Surmount, P.K., was about 18 hands and extremely gentle. His sire, Bardrill Glenord, was a 5-times Canadian national champion. The first thing he did on arriving at our farm was to jump off the trailer, and immediately breed our Morgan-cross mare that we had been unsuccessfully trying to breed for months. The resulting foal was our first Clyde-bred, Glenord's Alexandria. She proved such a great all-around horse, that the focus shifted from breeding straight Clydesdales, to breeding the cross-bred horse. We got four foals from the Morgan mare and two foals from Thoroughbred mares. These half-Clydes proved very versatile and were successful as field hunters, eventers, and in dressage. |
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