32 "GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA," "ISLAM," 



the English coach-horse, and there he stops, as a non-producer of other 

 desirable types. 



In France a few wealthy noblemen, with the breeder's gift, imported 

 Arabian stallions and mares, from which experiments were tried in a 

 new climate, and upon different soil, with better and more abundant 

 feed. Without knowledge, their efforts were of no special results; but 

 with experiment came information. Fresh Arabs were imported, among 

 them Godolphin Arabian and Gallipoli. These two Arabian stallions 

 were bred on to now native (in France) Arabian blood, upon the prin- 

 ciple of "once out and thrice back to a primitive blood," and the 

 horse of the country became known as La Perche, later the Norman 

 Percheron. 



Godolphin Arabian went to England to be the getter of the best 

 running-horses they had up to his day, because he reinforced his own 

 blood ; but coming through French ownership as he did, with English 

 national pride, they for a time ignored Godolphin Arabian, trying to fix 

 their type as purely "national," by saying their own importations were 

 the factors, and their Darley Arabian the cause. 



However, the blood of Godolphin Arabian left in La Perche in 

 sons and daughters, uniting with affinity blood of Gallipoli in sons ami 

 daughters (once out and thrice back), made a strong foundation before 

 the French breeders were aware of it for their now beautiful national 

 horse, the "Percheron." (Please refer to the French government sta- 

 tistics gathered and contributed by the veteran author Charles Du Hays, 

 also by Mons. Fardouet.) 



Intelligent and gifted men like Du Hays and Fardouet encouraged 

 close breeding of the type now founded, and the result of such close 

 relationships has given them a horse demanded the world over where 

 draught-horses are wanted, while the demand for the English race-horse 

 is limited to the sporting fraternity, either of the nobility or the lower 

 grades who live by gambling. 



It is not so many years, after all, since these two families of " national 

 horses" were created and established. The possibilities in man are 

 very great where concerted action is taken ; but, unfortunately, one- 

 half of man's life is spent in discord and opposition. Every man has 

 an opinion, thinking he knows best; or, finding he does not know, dis- 

 likes to yield ; and if he has an abundance of means will, from no 

 laudable motives, devote all his capital with his energies to kill the 

 object which he knows will mortify his pride, especially when he can 

 see and know that success is bound to come with the superior man, of 



