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having been foaled in 1876. He was imported 

 in 1881, and it may truthfully be said of him 

 that he founded a family in the Percheron 

 breed the like of which the history of no other 

 draft strain records. His sons and his grand- 

 sons topped their classes with striking uni- 

 formity and his blood has been doubled and 

 twisted upon itself in the most extraordinary 

 mixture of in-breeding and line-breeding that 

 has no parallel in draft horse breeding. He 

 was never a great horse individually— even 

 Eiosa Bonheur's picture does not show him to 

 have been that— but he bred extraordinarily 

 well. Not only did his sons become celebrated 

 in the stud, but his mares did likewise, and I am 

 sure there are many horsemen who will agree 

 with me when I say that his daughters were 

 superior as a band to those of any other Per- 

 cheron stallion they have ever known. 



McQueen was foaled May 15, 1885, was im- 

 ported in 1887 to Canada and to this country 

 the same year. His career in the show ring 

 extended from that fall to the Columbian, and 

 he never met defeat in his class and only once 

 in a championship. Premier in the Blairgowrie 

 stud, his get were synonyms for youthful 

 Clydesdale excellence and they kept coming 

 from foalho'od to maturity. Blairgowrie had 

 only a few mares at the most and McQueen be- 

 got comparatively few foals in the United 

 States. His percentage of prize winners is, not- 



