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where Edmond, so well known in connection with 

 latter-day breeding operations in the Perche, was 

 bom. In his later years Champeaux was ceded to 

 the son Edmond, the father removing to the adjacent 

 property known as La Borde, where he at an ad- 

 anced age hais continued to conduct farming and 

 breeding operations. 



Louis Perriot remembers well the famous stallion 

 Vieux Chaslin, that figures so prominently in the 

 pedigrees of many of the best horses of the founda- 

 tion period of our modem records, and describes 

 him as extraordinarily good in the chest, neck and 

 head. He testifies that Vieux Chaslin 's progeny 

 was distinguished always for quality and vigor, be- 

 ing in great demand from all discriminating buyers. 

 His father bought one of his best sons, Favori 1st, 

 a gray, foaled in 1862. Vieux Chaslin was dropped 

 in 1847 and served for a long series of years with 

 remarkable success in the La Ferte district. He 

 was owned by M. Vinault, one of the leading stal- 

 lioners of his day in the Perche. 



Favori 1st, the stallion that brought the elder 

 Perriot his greatest fame, was the sire of Bayard 

 (717), that got the celebrated stallion French Mon- 

 arch (824), bought by Mr. Dunham for America in 

 1880 at 5 years of age and subsequently sold to Mr. 

 Wheelock of Moline, 111. This horse should not be 

 confused with one of the same name, a black bred 

 by Tacheau and sold into Iowa about 1874. An- 

 other noted son of Favori 1st was Favora (725), 

 out of the mare Marie by the great Coco. Favora 



