62 A HISTORY OF THE PEECHERON HORSE 



undertaking to reduce to specific terms a proposition 

 of such interest to students of Percheron history, we 

 have had the government archives at Paris searched 

 in quest of details as to this supposedly epoch- 

 making event. The results of this research are 

 amazingly at variance with the above statements. 



Permission was kindly given by the authorities 

 not only to examine all the records, but to make 

 photographs of the original entries in substantiation 

 of the facts now to be set forth. And lest any ques- 

 tion of mistaken identity be raised, let us say at the 

 outset that the two stallions bearing these names, 

 concerning which we shall now give full particulars, 

 are the only horses possessing those names men- 

 tioned in the list of stallions at Le Pin iij all its his- 

 tory. 



Godolphin an English Saddler. — We first meet 

 Godolphin at the stallion inspection of 1810. The 

 record may be thus translated: 



"No. 20,'Godolphin; born 1802; height 1 meter, 54 

 cm. (about 15.1 hands) ; from the stable of Count de 

 Maulke, Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Observations: good 

 horse, but marked at the croup M.; inferior to the 

 preceding horse in the list (also a Mecklenburg- 

 Strelitz horse). Sire: Mock Doctor, English blood 

 horse; Dam: Unknown English mare. When entered: 

 12 July, 1807. Description: Saddle horse." 



It appears that he was secured for the stud by M. 

 D'Avangour, who also brought in several other 

 Mecklenburg horses in the same year, 1807. All these 

 were classed as "saddle horses." At the inspection 

 of 1812 we find the following observations relating 



