90 A HISTORY OF THE PEECHERON HORSE 



was owned by Benoit. According to a letter found 

 among the documents relating to the approved stal- 

 lions, 2,540 francs was offered for Le Coq at the fair 

 of St. Andre before he was approved. The letter is 

 written by the Prefect of Eure-et-Loir to the Min- 

 ister of the Interior. In 1828 Le Coq served IM mares 

 and in 1829 had 116 mares. Bijou had 130 mares 

 in 1828. Cottereau's stallion, Braillard, served 64 

 mares in 1828 and the same number in 1829. At 

 the end of the 1829 season this stallion broke his 

 thigh while serving a mare, as attested by affidavit 

 made out at Coudray on the 7th of October, 1829. 

 Le Grand had 81 mares in 1828, 60 in 1829, 72 in 

 1830, and 52 in 1831. The owner of Le Grand 

 (Toutay) had also another approved stallion at this 

 time, called Le Veau Eaye. He had 60 mares in 1828, 

 61 in 1829, and 55 in 1830. This stallion, born in 

 1824, was dark gray and 16 hands high. 



In 1831 the owners of the approved stallions in 

 Eure-et-Loir were Benoit, Madame Toutay (Beau- 

 mont), Guillaumin, Gaubert, Cottereau, Toutay, and 

 Marechal. Toutay and Marechal had each three 

 stallions. Benoit had two stallions; one, Le Cadet, 

 served 120 mares in 1831 and 145 in 1832, while the 

 other, Le Pommele, born in 1827, and standing 16.1 

 hands full, had 95 mares in 1831 and 108 in 1832. 



More Big Gray Horses.— Marechal 's Le Bijou (an- 

 other Bijou, probably a son of the first), born in 

 1826, had 112 mares in 1831 and 61 in 1832. The 

 same owner's Le Pierro, a dapple-gray of 16 hands, 

 bom in 1826, had 106 mares in 1832. Marechal's 



