328 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
PINK BRILLANTE 
131. Pink Brillante 57897, was champion Percheron mare at 
the 1916 International. Although foaled in 1908, she never 
had but one year in the showring, her entry being somewhat 
fortuitous due to the accidental death of her 1916 foal at about 
two months of age. She was sent to the Iowa State Fair, where 
A. S. Rosinson placed her first in spite of her thinness, facing 
severe ringside dissent. His judgment was confirmed by her 
International winning and she is now considered the best bal- 
anced big mare that ever won a Percheron championship. She 
was bred by DunHam’s, Wayne, IIl., and has proved a most fer- 
tile and regular breeder. Although only a three-year-old, she 
dropped her first colt in 1911 and one each year thereafter 
through 1919. She failed to rear her 1916 and 1917 colts, both 
of them dying young. Pink Brillante has a longer pre-show 
record as a breeder than any other premier mare at the Inter- 
national. 
Her sire, Pink, was International champion stallion in 1903 
and 1904, and was second in the aged stallion classes of 1905 
and 1906 in spite of heavy stud use. He was a grandson of 
Besigue, by Brilliant 3rd, and traced into the unsurpassed Per- 
cheron strain of Brilliants. His dam Odelisque was by Bien- 
ville, one of the best grandsons of Brilliant, he by Voltaire, the 
best son of Brilliant 1271. Pink Brillante’s dam Briennette 
also traced to Brilliant 1271, her grandsire through her dam 
Brienne. 
Pink Brillante stood 17:3 hands and weighed 2,300 pounds 
as champion. 
