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Monmoutli; Jas. A. Perry, Wilmington, and last but 

 not least, E. Dillon & Co., Normal, which had been 

 identified with the business since the purchase of 

 Louis Napoleon in 1858. Illinois' delegation consist- 

 ed of 17 out of the 24 stallions imported that season. 

 Josephine 814, brought across by Mr. Parrott, is the 

 only mare listed for 1870. She was disposed of the 

 following spring to Mr. Meyer, but died before she 

 could be shipped. 



Duke de Chartres Brings $4,000. — Among the stal- 

 lions imported in 1870 were several celebrities. In 

 the quartette brought by James A. Perry, "Wilming- 

 ton, 111., was Duke de Chartres 150, a four-year-old 

 gray conceded to have been the handsomest imported 

 stallion of his day, and extraordinarily successful in 

 the showring at the Illinois State and other fairs. 

 He earned the further distinction of being the first 

 imported horse to be taken to California, William 

 Hill & Co., Petaluma, being the buyers at a price 

 reported to have been $4,000, or the highest paid up 

 to that date. Diligent inquiry has failed to develop 

 information touching Duke de Chartres ' career after 

 reaching the Golden State. Vidal 784, another stal- 

 lion in the same importation, was later sold by Mr. 

 Perry to the Degens of Ottawa, his acquisition mark- 

 ing the entrance of that Illinois family into the 

 business in which they were prominent for some 

 years. 



Pride of Perche 382, a four-year-old gray imported 

 by the Marion company in Ohio, was probably the 

 second imported stallion taken into Iowa, having 



