CHAPTER VI. 

 THE IMPORTING RECOKD TO 1870. 



More stallions and mares were imported into the 

 United States from France in 1868 than during all 

 the previous seasons, the figures being 31 stallions 

 and 8 mares. Seven of the mares were brought across 

 the sea by the late Gen. W. T. Walters, Baltimore, 

 Md., and the remaining one by Jeff C. Clark, Nor- 

 mandy, Mo. 



Importers of stallions in 1868 included, besides the 

 two already named, the Gallon Importing Co., Gallon, 

 O. ; Wallace, Watkins & Co. and the Marion County 

 Importing Co., Marion, 0.; Brown, Bigelow & Co., 

 Columbus, 0.; Dwight Gay, Columbus, 0.; FuUing- 

 ton, Phellis & Co., Irwin Station, 0.; A. G. Van 

 Hoorebeke, Monmouth, 111., and W. J. Edwards, Clif- 

 ton, 111. Territorial expansion was the order of the 

 day and greater size seems to have been sought in 

 France by most of the importers. Practically all the 

 stallions were bought in the towns of Eouen, Amiens, 

 Elboeuf, Boulogne, and Havre. The Paris dealers' 

 stables were also resorted to. The exact origin of 

 the imported horses of this period will never be 

 known, and this statement will apply with equal 

 truth to many a good horse brought to America from 

 France in subsequent years. It is clear that those 



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