156 THE HOKSE BOOK. 



should be clearly understood that in calling 

 their horses Normans these importers and 

 breeders did not desire to imply that the ani- 

 mals all came from Normandy, but rather that 

 Norman was a generic title which included all 

 the draft breeds of France, and as these breeds 

 were about one and the same thing they were 

 all equally entitled to registration. On the 

 other hand, the Percheron contingent, insisting 

 that the Percheron was the typical drafter of 

 France, dropped the Norman from the name of 

 the breed and continued the publication of the 

 Percheron Stud Book. The present National 

 Register of French Draft Horses is the lineal 

 successor of the National Register of Norman 

 Horses and the Percheron Stud Book of 

 America has come to the association presently 

 controlling it from the beginning made under 

 the late J. H. Sanders, as already detailed. 



In the French Draft book are registered all 

 imported stallions and mares which are record- 

 ed in the General Draft Horse Stud Book of 

 France. In the Percheron Stud Book only 

 pure-bred Percherons may be registered. This 

 is to say that Percherons may be registered as 

 French Drafters if the owner so desires, while 

 horses of the Percheron breed only may be 

 recorded as Percherons. In this way the effort 

 at specialization initiated along back in the mid- 

 dle seventies has been achieved. As bearing 

 somewhat on this matter of registration of all 



