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individual prices can be ascertained averaging $812 

 each during the time when extremely low prices were 

 the rule. The colts he begot in Kansas were not 

 developed, were small because stunted, and conse- 

 quently sold at very low prices. Despite this they 

 grew out and made good breeding stock, quite profit- 

 able to their subsequent owners. As a whole, how- 

 ever, the chief good done to the breed by Brilliant 3d 

 was in France, as the colts sired by him in America 

 were too few to make his services here especially 

 important. His imported descendants, however, 

 have exerted a profound influence on Percheron 

 breeding in America. He was unquestionably the 

 greatest sire the breed has known in the last 30 

 years, when his work in both France and America 

 is considered, and his injury just after importation 

 was a great loss to Percheron breeding in this coun- 

 try. 



Other Oaklawn Sires. — Brilliant 3d's injuries led 

 Mr. Dunham to use Marathon freely in 1890. Mara- 

 thon was foaled in 1885. He was first in the three- 

 year-old class at the annual show held by the Societe 

 Hippique Percheronne de France in 1888 and first 

 in the aged stallion class at that show in 1889. He 

 stood 17 hands high, weighed more than 2,100 

 pounds in show condition, and was unusual in his 

 muscular development and well-proportioned 

 throughout. He was somewhat larger and more 

 massive in type than Brilliant 3d, with hardly so 

 much finish. Both were grandsons of Brilliant 1271 

 — ^Brilliant 3d through Fenelon and Marathon 



