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South America are being supplied with stock of our 

 breeding, and lastly, that beautiful country, that great 

 republic across the sea, whose progress is the wonder 

 of the world, is our mosf enamored admirer and liberal 

 purchaser. 



" Investigation has shown us that the improvements 

 of the past necessary to meet the changing demands 

 have been accomplished bv selectinof animals best 

 suited to the new requirements, and, by a judicious 

 system of in-and-in-breeding, perpetuating the valuable 

 qualities sought for, at the same time intensifying their 

 hereditary powers of transmitting those qualities ; also, 

 that the finest specimens of the Percheron race now 

 in existence are traceable directly to the generative 

 influences of the Arab, the primitive horse — the primal 

 origin of the Percheron race. 



" The veteran historian and faithful friend of the 

 Percheron, Charles Du Hays, many years ago advo- 

 cated these doctrines, and it is certainly a most 

 extraordinary commentary upon the discernment and 

 knowledge of horse-breeding possessed by this famous 

 author, that ' Jean le Blanc,' the horse that so greatly 

 excited his admiration that he took the pains to trace 

 his origin, and found him a direct descendant of the 

 famous Arab stallion ' Gallipoli,' belonging to the stud 

 stables of Pin, near Bellesme, established by the 

 Marquis of Brigges in 1760, has proven the most 

 potent element in the improvement of the Percheron 

 race, nearly all of the most valuable and highest 

 priced stallions of the Perche being directly traceable 

 to this horse, many of the finest through several lines 

 of in-breedinCT." 



It will thus be seen that the finest and most 



