Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1877 – ....)

« The aim of the Clydesdale Horse Society is to maintain the purity of the breed and to promote the Clydesdale Horse.
The Clydesdale Horse Society was initiated on the eve of the Glasgow Stallion Show on the last Tuesday of February 1877. The Society was formally launched in June 1877. The first, or retrospective, volume of the Clydesdale Horse Stud Book was published the following December. By this time the breed was known to have been in existence for 150 years. (Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland) » Présentation du site (2025)

– The Clydesdale Stud-Book. Retrospective volume: containing pedigrees of stallions foaled previous to 1 st January 1875. Collected and compiled by the Right Hon. The Earl of Dunmore, First President of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and presented by him to the Society, November, 1878. Revised by the Editing Committee. London, [Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland], 1878.