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set necks — a heavy drafty sort standing on short 

 legs. Towards the end of Ernest Perriot's career 

 it was commonly allowed that some little lack of 

 size and constitution had begun to appear. There 

 was apparently some falling away from the old- 

 time outstanding excellence, and yet to this day 

 among the strongly-bred Perriot stallions where 

 the individual quality scarcely measures up to the 

 older standards the blood continues to breed on 

 with extraordinary success, producing horses of a 

 character illustrating once more the operation of 

 well known laws of heredity — ^reversion to ancestral 

 types. 



The Tacheaus. — Forever famous in the annals 

 of the Perche will stand the names of Auguste 

 Tacheau, pere et fils. After M. VLnault the senior 

 Tacheau was the greatest stallioner and breeder 

 of the La Ferte Bernard region. Like Charles Ave- 

 line and other contemporaries, he was ever active 

 in catering to the great American demand, and in 

 this service acquired a fortune. When Charles 

 Aveline was still a young man the two leaders in 

 the development of Percheron interests were Ta^ 

 cheau grand-pere and the father of Louis and 

 Ernest Perriot. It was Tacheau pere that acquired 

 French Monarch (734) in 1868, and used him as a 

 stud horse in the La Ferte district, during which 

 time — 1868 to 1874 — ^that great horse served a large 

 number of mares and acquired a reputation as a 

 sire of highclass stock, being then sold to America 

 to S. S. Waterbury and A. W. Cook of Iowa. Dur- 



