THE PERCHERON HORSE. 21 



long year before the eastern blood will be seen as before. 

 It is only towards 1820, still at the same chateau of 

 Coesme, with the grandsons of those old admirers of the 

 Arabians, that we find again two Arab horses from the 

 stud-stables of Pin, Godolphin and GalUpoli. These two 

 valuable stock-getters, both gray, again gave tone and ar- 

 dor to the Percheron race, and transformed definitely in- 

 to gray horses the stock of the entire country, which had, 

 it was said, become less uniform, and of all colors. 



The Brittany horses have been strongly attracted to- 

 wards Perche by the immense outlet offered by the public 

 service, since the increase of the roads, to the Percherons. 

 Mixtures between the two races must have been frequent. 

 And when a good Brittany horse was there met with, he 

 must have been made use of, and the old native type has 

 gradually tended to disappear, and its traces become more 

 and more rare. This mixture of Percheron and Brittany 

 blood, too well marked to be questioned, arises from several 

 causes, which we will take up successively in review. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE FIRST MODIFICATION, DUE TO CONTACT WITH THE 

 BRITTANY RACE. 



Perche is bounded, in its whole length, by the immense 

 plains of Beauce. On account of this position, it was al- 

 ways traversed by the post-coaches for Paris, and by 

 all the supplies that came from the West. 



Being the intermediate point between the principal 

 home of the Brittany draft-horse and the immense markets 

 which Beauce and Paris offered, its territory was the 

 necessary stopping-place of everything that came from 



