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Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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n-tal origin, what the Darley Arabian was to the English thor-oughbred and the gray Arabian Serctan to the Orlofs, thegray Arabian Gallipoli, imported in 1820, has been to thePercheron horse of France. In fact, this Oriental Arabianblood, wherever introduced, in all nations and all climates, hasbeen a powerful factor of improvement in the equme race. There is every reason to believe that this breed, like thedraft breeds of England and Scotland, derived its size, orig-inally, from the large black horses of Flanders; but thePercheron horse, as now bred, shows a very great analogy byhis coat, conformation, character of race, mild disposition, andendurance to tlie Arab, of which he seems to be the son, not-withstanding certain differences, the result of time, climate, andthe region in which he is bred and in which he lives. The Percheron of the primitive type has a gray coat likethe Arab, and, like him, an abundant and silky mane, a fineskin, and a large, ()rominent, and expressive eye. I
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DRAFT HORSES. 137 They, as a breed, have become the wonder of the world fortheir rapid draft — their ability to move a heavy load at arapid gait. Road Qualities of the PercTieron Horse. A gray mare of Oine, France, in 1845, performed the fol-lowing match : Harnessed to a tillbury, she started from Ber-nay at the same time as tlie mail courier from Rouen to Bor-deaux, and arrived before it at Alencon, having made fifty-fiveand three-fifths miles over a hilly and difiicult road in fourhours and twenty-four minutes. In 18G4, a gray mare seven years old, harnessed to a till-bury, traveled fifty-eight miles and back on two consecutivedays, going at a trot and Avithout being touched with a whip.This was also over a hilly road from Lyons-la-Foret to PontAudemer and back, a difficult and hilly road. The following time was made: First day, the distance,fifty-eight miles, was trotted in four hours, one minute, andthirty-five seconds ; the second day, in four hours, one minute,and thirty secon

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