124 A HISTORY OF THE PEHCHERON HORSE 



in the whole United States in which we could have 

 met mares of better weight or conformation. Many 

 of these weighed 1,400 pounds, some as much as 

 1,500, and a few even up to 1,600 pounds— big, 

 roomy, shapely, solid matrons, admirably fitted to 

 mate with a stallion of Louis Napoleon's size, build, 

 and type. 



Various alleged portraits of this famous horse have 

 in the past enjoyed a meretricious vogue, but all 

 doubt as to his appearance at maturity is now defin- 

 itely removed by the illustration herewith pre- 

 sented, prepared from an enlargement of a small 

 daguerreotype taken in 1852 when the horse was four 

 years old and dapple-gray in color. In height at full 

 maturity he stood between 15.3 and 16 hands, and his 

 greatest weight was 1,630 pounds. 



Maryland Importation of 1853.— In Volume I of 

 the Pereheron Stud Book of America Col. Charles 

 Carroll, Baltimore, Md., is credited with having im- 

 ported the stallion Chartres 88, but no statement is 

 made as to color or date of birth. In that volume, 

 too, J. Howard McHenry, Pikesville, Md., is named 

 as the importer of two mares — ^Lily 572 and Snow- 

 drop 607 — gray and white in order written, but with- 

 out certainty as to age. To Snowdrop the produc- 

 tion of two purebred colts is assigned, both being 

 stallions and both by Duke of Normandy 172 — the 

 Gray Billy imported in the ship Scianne along with 

 Pleasant Valley Bill. Nothing further of the his- 

 tory of these importations of 1853 has been reached. 

 Both of the mares died at a comparatively early 

 age, the two stallions by Duke of Normandy 172 out 



