66 THE PEECHEEON HOESE. 



ard. Sandy was a draft stallion, with a long and silky 

 mane, a perfectly white coat, and with a high and grace- 

 ful gait like that of an oriental horse; lean and strong 

 legs, a short head, dilated nostrils, and a large and intelli- 

 gent eye. Although foaled in England, this horse was ev- 

 idently not English ; he must have come of eastern blood, 

 as this is so often seen among our neighbors who success- 

 fully use the Arab blood in the formation of their draft 

 and hunting races. 



As for Bayard, he was a son of a Percheron mare be- 

 longing to M. Yiel, of Chiffreville, near Argenton, one 

 of the finest and purest ever seen. This mare had been 

 bred to Idalis, a small and well-knit wagon-horse, son 

 of Don Quichotte, who descended from the thoroughbred 

 brood-mare Moina. Consequently, Bayard had in his 

 veins some of the best oriental blood, and it is to this cir- 

 cumstance that is attributed the vigor, gait, and beauty, 

 of all his progeny. 



Perhaps the two stallions Beyvemito and Fandango, 

 which passed for Anglo-Percherons, and which have been 

 cited as types of draft-horse stallions, will be held up to 

 me as a refutation. Benvenuto, the stallion from Pin, 

 which has produced well in Perche, was not the son of 

 Eastham and a Percheron mare, as was said at the time 

 in order to have him accepted by the government, but was 

 really out of a Percheron mare by a Percheron stallion 

 coming from the neighborhood of Bellesme, and the de- 

 scendant of Arabian stallions which had been standing in 

 that district. 



Fandango, the other crossed Percheron, uniformly a 

 successful stallion, had double cross, on -the sire's side, of 

 the blood of the Arabian Dagout, and his dam, whose 

 pedigree has also been explained to me, came likewise 

 from near Bellesme. 



A Percheron stallion called Jean-le-Blanc, native of 

 Mauves, and sold about the year 1825 to a M. Yiard of 



