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CHAPTER 1

FINDING GOLIATH

In company with Harry Ranson, Young and Co's famous
Head Horseman, they had been looking for new horses
and found themselves at the premises of Fred Harlock at
Ramsey near Peterborough. Among the Shire horses
Fred had at that time was this tall, bony, gangly black
gelding with four “white legs”.

The story went along the lines that Goliath had been born
in the North West of England and put to work far too soon
in life by his first owner. He never really had much of a
chance after that.

It's very much like the old chimney sweeps putting
children up chimney stacks to sweep them, or the young
children being used in northern mills many years ago to
collect up under the machines as the children were small
in stature.
Bones and bodies need time to develop, time to grow
their bones and muscles, time to become their proper
shape.

“Old” Goliath did not have this chance. All his life after
those initial years he looked a bag of bones. His
“conformation” was quite dreadful but nevertheless he did
grow in height.

We often wondered just what he would have been like
had he had the good home he deserved when he was
“just a lad”? How would he have really developed?