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bred a mare to this horse when Duhamel owned him. I do not know 

 what he got. They bred a mare to him when one year old. The dam was a 

 small pacing Canadian mare. He had a gray horse younger ". 



M. Perrault, St. Paul, near Joliette, born 1825, said : " Joseph Danse- 

 reau had a fast pacer at St. Paul, when I was a boy, a chestnut, very fast. 

 He sold to a stranger ". 



M. Botman, born 1819, son-in-law of M. Recollet, said : "The Recol- 

 let Horse was a nice, pretty horse ; there was a full brother, a gray horse, but 

 the black was better than the gray. The gray was larger than the other, as 

 fast, but couldn't go as many heats. There was no whip wanted for the 

 black, and he was the handsomest. 1 think the gray came from Duhamel. 

 When I was about twenty-one, Recollet sent a mare to Dansereau's horse, a 

 son, I think, of the first Dansereau Horse. Before I was married Recollet 

 had his black horse, and after I was married he bred a mare to Danse- 

 reau's horse. The first horse Dansereau had was a son of the Recollet Horse. 

 We went to Contre-Cceur with the mare and bred her to Dansereau's horse 

 because my father-in-law said this horse was descended from his old horse ; 

 bred to a horse four years old that spring that paced fast ; black with a little 

 white on end of nose, fifteen and a half hands high or so, nine hundred to 

 one thousand pounds : not very thick, but fine. Recollet's horse was not 

 less than eight years old when he sold him. M. Ambrose Bousset of Sorel 

 owned the gray brother of the Recollet Horse three or four years. He 

 bought him of Duhamel one or two years after Recollet bought his. In a 

 pacing race on ice the black beat him. He sold the gray to an American. 

 His son, Felix Bousset, lives in the States and is about seventy years old. 

 There were no horses at that time that could beat these horses pacing. 

 Black, Men fait, not over fifteen hands high ; gray, larger, heavier, with a 

 coarser hip and straight neck ; crest not so high as black ; one hundred and 

 fifty pounds heavier". 



D r> of L' Assomption, a gentleman of means and education, 



and always fond of horses, especially the thoroughbred, said : " The Dan- 

 sereau horses were fast pacers. I knew one fifty or sixty years ago. He 

 kept him a long time ; sold him when ten years old or so, and I think it was 

 sixty years ago when he sold him. He was a small pony, net very high, 

 fourteen and a half or fifteen hands, blocky, well shaped for a little horse. 

 He was the fastest horse we had in the country. He raced him every win- 

 ter ; always won except one time at Chambly ; won the race then, but lost 

 one heat to a large brown pacer owned by Barsole of Chambly. The race 

 was made by the officers. There was another pacer from St. Scholastique, a 

 little black horse, smaller than Dansereau's ". 



A gentleman of Contre-Cceur said : "The Dansereau horses were the 

 best in Canada ; all sold to strangers and went to the States. One was sold 

 to Vassar in Chicago forty or fifty years ago : prettiest horse in the Province 

 of Quebec, black, fifteen 'hands high, nice neck, nice head, nice every way, 

 not heavy, well made all over, no white". 



