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an examination of the original documents of the in- 

 spections of the Haras du Pin, and by photographing 

 them, that neither Gallipoly nor Godolphin was an 

 Arab, Gallipoly being a small Turkish saddle horse, 

 and Godolphin a Mecklenburg-Strelitz saddle horse 

 of English breeding. Further, that far from Godol- 

 phin being a "gray," he was a "golden chestnut." 

 We are told that these two horses went to Coesme, 

 near Belleme, in 1818 and following years. Neither 

 documents nor deductions are attested in proof. The 

 facts are, that in 1818 both of these stallions were 

 still in service at the haras. Godolphin was then 

 16 years old and Gallipoly was 15 years old. In 1819 

 at the annual inspection we read that Godolphin 

 "has ceased to serve at Le Pin," and that he is 

 going to be "deplaced" as no longer suitable, it 

 being proposed to send him to Abbeville (Depart- 

 ment of La Somme). In the same year, 1819, 

 Gallipoly is going to be "deplaced" as no longer 

 suitable. It is proposed to send him to Brittany. 

 But in the following year we find the name of 

 Gallipoly still on the list of stallions doing service 

 at Le Pin, although the name of Godolphin is absent. 

 After 1820 we never hear of Gallipoly again; he is 

 then 17 years old, and has probably been sent to 

 Brittany. 



So far as the statement that these two stallions 

 were the means of giving the gray color to the Per- 

 cheron breed is concerned, all one has to do to demon- 

 strate such a fallacy is to read the accounts of the 

 approved heavy draft stallions serving simultan- 



