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resourceful and far-sighted men ever identified with 

 animal breeding in North America. Firm in the 

 conviction that a great future lay before the French 

 horses in the United States, Mr. Dunham bought 

 out his colleagues in this enterprise and there and 

 then founded the great importing and breeding 

 enterprise which has made the names of Dunham 

 and Oaklawn household words among the draft horse 

 breeders of two continents. His subsequent stu- 

 pendous success will necessarily come in for frequent 

 reference as our story progresses. 



Napoleon Bonaparte. — ^While no very direct ac- 

 count can be given of the events which followed 

 the introduction by Jeff C Clark of French blood 

 into Missouri, further than as contained in the rec- 

 ords, the facts seem to be clear enough. Eugenia 

 802, the gray mare imported by Mr. Clark that 

 year as a four-year-old, proved prolific, though un- 

 reliable as to the color of her progeny. Mr. Clark 

 seems to have held on to his imported horses for 

 some seven years, when he disposed of Eugenia to 

 Henry V. P. Block, Aberdeen, Mo., and the stallion 

 Napoleon Bonaparte 334 to the Pike Co., Mo., Horse 

 Association, Louisiana, Mo. Of this gray horse it 

 is of record that while weighing close to 1,600 

 pounds he was possessed of coach horse conforma- 

 tion, style and beauty, quality and action. More- 

 over he was quite fast at the trot. There is a tradi- 

 tion, of sufficient moment at the time to induce the 

 discriminating compiler to record it in Volume I of 

 the Percheron Stud Book, that Napoleon Bonaparte 



