Stallion
Colour: Chestnut
Breed: Thoroughbred
Type: Unknown
Foaled: 1888
Height: 16hh

Sire: King Harold (was Telephone III)
Dam: Bounding Lass

BLAKELAW GSB (Vol.17 p.72) a chestnut colt. Foaled in 1888 and bred by Mr. T. Oliver.
He was exhibited at the London Show of The Hunters’ Improvement Society in 1898 by Mr Robert Oliver, Lochside, Kelso, Roxburghshire and was awarded a Premium of £150.
In 1901 at the London Show of The Hunters’ Improvement Society, he was awarded First Reserve but this time he was exhibited by Frederick Jeffery, Manor Hotel, Dowsland, Yelverton, Devonshire.

In 1902 at The Hunters’ Improvement Society’s show, Blakelaw was awarded a King’s Premium of £150 by the Royal Commission on Horse Breeding.  He travelled Leicester, Melton Mowbury and Loughborough.  In 1903 he was awarded 1st Reserve, to travel in the same district.

Blakelaw was recorded as having ‘prize winning produce,’ in 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1909.  He appears in in the, List of Premium and Registered Stallions 1898-1913, recognised under the Horse-breeding schemes of the Royal Commission on Horse-breeding, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Royal Agricultural Society of England and The Hunters’ Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society.

Blakelaw was the sire of Midsummer Night, foaled 1901, whose dam was Dream, and sire of Blackberry dam of Sheika

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