80 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



The grade or half-bred French Coach horse, the result of pure- 

 bred sires on American-bred mares, is comparatively little known. 

 In some localities very excellent carriage horses have come from 

 French Coach sires on mares of trotting-blood ancestry, while in 

 other regions the cross has not been satisfactory. The Hamlins 

 of Buffalo, New York, sent twelve trotting-bred mares from 

 Village Farm to Oaklawn, the stud of the late M. W. Dunham, 

 to be bred to French Coach sires. They were retained for two 

 years at Oaklawn, and the half-bred colts met with considerable 

 favorable comment. One of the half-bred stallions was placed 

 in the imperial stud of Japan. Another became prominent as a 

 saddle horse. Cogent, got by Mambrino King out of a French 

 Coach mare, was not only a sire of some distinction, but also 

 won numerous prizes as a heavy harness horse. Mr. J. S. San- 

 born of Boston, on his Maine farm, mated French Coach stallions 

 to trotting mares and produced some very choice harness horses. 

 In a communication to the Breeders Gazette, Messrs. Dunham, 

 Fletcher & Coleman write : 



A few years ago a shipment of half and three-quarter bred French Coach 

 mares and geldings, matched and finished for the trade, was made from 

 Iowa to New York, where the animals were sold at highly renumerative 

 prices, as high as $3000 a pair being paid. Carriage horses of exactly the 

 same and still higher breeding have been shipped continuously from the 

 same districts in the Hawkeye state ever since, with equally or still more 

 profitable results. 



American studbook. There are two societies in the United 

 States for French Coach horses, viz. The French Coach Horse 

 Society with present headquarters at Chicago, Illinois, and the 

 French Coach Registry Company with headquarters at Columbus, 

 Ohio. The former was organized in 1885, and published its first 

 studbook in 1906. The French Coach Registry Company was 

 organized in 1904, and also published Volume I of its studbook 

 in 1906. 



