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tier, Corbon (Orne), Benoit, Tontay, Cottereau, Guil- 

 laumain, Dieu, Monnier, de Vasconcelles Pigeard, 

 Marechal, Gaubert and their contemporaries con- 

 tributed largely to progress in the direction of a 

 draft type. Several of these were located in the 

 Nogent district of Eure-et-Loir. Due credit should 

 also be given to men among these earlier stallioners 

 residing in that part of the Perche lying within the 

 Department of Loir-et-Cher, such as the two Tardi- 

 neaus, Ferrand and their enterprising colleagues. 

 Some of these continued their work in this direction 

 throughout a long series of years. However, a new 

 school gradually succeeded them, carrying on the 

 development of the race along similar lines, so that 

 by the time the great American demand for still 

 heavier horses set in the Perche was in a position 

 through a very simple course of selection in mating 

 to gradually evolve the ton horse of modem com- 

 merce, and this too without undue sacrifice of that 

 vigor, soundness and quality which for generations 

 had been characteristic of the lighter types. 



Bailleau of Brunelles, near Nogent, according to 

 the government records, appeared about 1836 with 

 a draft horse, name not given. This stallion is de- 

 scribed as "gris. pommele, crins blanches" — a dap- 

 pled gray with white mane and four white markings, 

 and with "flesh" or pink spots "between the nos- 

 trils." He was a good horse, first approved in 

 1836. It is recorded that he served as late as 1845. 



In 1837 we find record of the approved horse 

 Grand Pierre, owned by M. Geru of Echaffour, Orne. 



