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active, somewhat nervous temperament and go with 

 unusual snap and dash. Gray is the most typical color, 

 though blacks have been most common, and bays, browns 

 and chestnuts occur but are not favored. 



In brief the Percheron is a rapid draft horse of a cold and 

 hot blood origin which has had his weight brought up to 



Fig. 72. — A Belgian stallion. 



modern draft requirements by his breeders resorting to 

 stronger infusions of cold blood, but selecting to retain the 

 activity and refinement of the original to as great an ex- 

 tent as the law of correlation would permit of. 



168. The Belgian. — The Belgian (Fig. 72) is the most 

 uniformly low down and wide out of any of the draft breeds 



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