AggieCan -

Only a few of Baron O' Buchlyvie's progeny listed here (Click on "Reports" for a drop-down menu - then click "Progeny"). Munchausen untraceable on google apart from your own query! There appear to be a few people around the world who possess copies of the Clydesdale Stud Books - might be worth trying one or more of them?

Scowie -

I know you from your songs (via Giff and others) but I don't think we've ever met. Any of George Ewart Evans' books are worth seeking out - he was doing for the spoken word and rural lore what the folk-song collectors were doing for song - but with much more connection to the lives of his sources.

There used to be a Heavy Horse Centre across the Wyre in Out Rawcliffe (Valiants). Bob Gardner bred Shire horses there and eventually developed the farm into an equestrian centre. He died just last year, the day after one of his horses won a rosette at Cartmel Show.

Ross