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The family showed shire horses, he said, which his son was passionate about.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Buckingham Palace said the teddies had been collected with the help of shire horses and almost 200 volunteers - and were being "well looked after".

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022

More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022

A giant metal box sits in a field next to the shire council: one of several air-quality monitoring stations paid for by the mining and power-generating industries.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

It was probably the shire reeve’s horse, for above the slow clatter over the cobbles Robin could hear the grating of runners on a kind of sled the horse was dragging.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli