64 A HISTORY OF THE PERCHERON HORSE 



Gallipoly a Small Turkish Saddle Horse.— This 



stallion first comes to light in government records 

 at the inspection of 1813. We quote, and again give 

 a photographic reproduction, from the original docu- 

 ments : 



"Gallipoly, Turk; light speckled gray; height, 1 

 meter, 50 cm: classification, saddle horse: sire, a 

 Turk; dam, a Turk; born 1803; entered haras Nov. 

 23, 1812. By whom bought: sent by the Minister. 

 Observations: good blood horse." 



Here we have a speckled-gray saddle stallion bare- 

 ly 15 hands high, and ten years old at date of entry! 

 He was not an Arab and scarcely a type, one would 

 say, to build up the Percherons "around 1820," 

 among which, as we shall shortly show from these 

 same authenticated records, there were many big 

 approved gray stallions in actual service and found- 

 ing the modern draft type from within the limits of 

 the native breed itself. 



To resume Gallipoly 's record: At the inspection' 

 of 1815 he is referred to in complimentary terms as 

 an "excellent stallion, well consented; produces well, 

 good action." It must be remembered that these 

 inspectors had ever in mind the requirements of the 



country, but it is said that a Mr. Coke, an Englishman, being in 

 Paris, was attracted by the appearance of the staUion in the 

 street and bought him despite the fact that the menial labor of 

 hauling a cart was then being exacted of him. At first he was 

 not much thought of in England, where Mr. Coke gave him to a 

 Mr. Williams, who in turn presented him to the Earl of Godolphin. 

 Godolphin Arabian was a brown-bay in color, of about 15 hands, 

 with an unusual development of crest and some white on his off 

 hind heel. He seems to have had but the three owners in Eng- 

 land, passing each time as a gift. From the Earl Godolphin he 

 took his erroneous title, and in his possession he died at Gog- 

 magog in Cambride-eshire in 1753, being then, as gauged by his 

 seven-year-old mouth in 1731, in his 29th year. 



