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being kept for stud service alone. As to where he 

 came from history is silent. This horse took Mr. 

 Martin's fancy, but all efforts to buy him proved 

 futile. Not to be foiled entirely, however, he did the 

 next best thing and bought a three-year-old full 

 brother described at that time as " a raw, unfinished 

 colt" but promising to attain good size. 



Mr. Martin paid $350 for the colt and on rejoining 

 his comrades told them what he had done, express- 

 ing his belief that such a stallion would do a good 

 business in the part of Ohio from which they came. 

 Besides, it would not cost much to get him home 

 with the rest of the stock. Pearl Howard declined 

 point blank to invest any of his money in so big a 

 stallion, but young FuUington, who was merely trav- 

 eling with the party on a pleasure jaunt, committed 

 his brother Charles, then a well-known figure in Ohio 

 stock-breeding circles, to pay for a half interest in 

 the horse. 



Landed safely in the Darby Plains countiy of 

 Ohio, Louis Napoleon, as this French-bred colt had 

 been named, met with a chilly reception. The late 

 James H. Sanders, founder of the American Per- 

 cheron Stud Book, who was born and lived as a 

 young man in central Ohio, has left the following 

 statement concerning this horse: 



"Louis Napoleon was a gray three-year-old of 

 good size, but not of the largest type, short-legged, 

 closely ribbed, blocky, and compact, with a neck 

 rather short and head a little too large for elegance, 

 but withal clearly cut, about 151/2 hands high, and 



