328 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



PINK BRILLANTE 



131. Pink Brillante 57897, was champion Percheron mare at 

 the 1916 International. Although foaled in 1908, she never 

 had but one year in the showring, her entry being somewhat 

 fortuitous due to the accidental death of her 1916 foal at about 

 two months of age. She was sent to the Iowa State Fair, where 

 A. S. Robinson placed her first in spite of her thinness, facing 

 severe ringside dissent. His judgment was confirmed by her 

 International winning and she is now considered the best bal- 

 anced big mare that ever won a Percheron championship. She 

 was bred by Dunham's, Wayne, 111., and has proved a most fer- 

 tile and regular breeder. Although only a three-year-old, she 

 dropped her first colt in 1911 and one each year thereafter 

 through 1919. She failed to rear her 1916 and 1917 colts, both 

 of them dying young. Pink Brillante has a longer pre-show 

 record as a breeder than any other premier mare at the Inter- 

 national. 



Her sire. Pink, was International champion stallion in 1903 

 and 1904, and was second in the aged stallion classes of 1905 

 and 1906 in spite of heavy stud use. He was a grandson of 

 Besigue, by Brilliant 3rd, and traced into the unsurpassed Per- 

 cheron strain of Brilliants. His dam Odelisque was by Bien- 

 ville, one of the best grandsons of Brilliant, he by Voltaire, the 

 best son of Brilliant 1271. Pink Brillante's dam Briennette 

 also traced to Brilliant 1271, her grandsire through her dam 

 Brienne. 



Pink Brillante stood 17:3 hands and weighed 2,300 pounds 

 as champion. 



