THE PERCHERON 



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The characteristics of the best horses are that they run from 15 to 16 hands 

 in height ; the head is handsome, though perhaps sometimes heavy, but more 

 frequently as fine as an Arab's; the nostrils wide; the eye large and expressive; 

 the forehead broad ; ears silky ; neck rather short, but with a good crest ; 

 withers high ; shoulders long and sloping ; chest rather flat, but broad and 



Fig. 35. Giroust 78504 (69869), a Percheron stallion owned by W. H. Butler, 

 Sandusky, Ohio. A prominent sire of Ohio futurity winners, as well as a high- 

 class show horse. From photograph by E. K. Emslie 



deep; body well ribbed; loins rather long; crupper level and muscular; the 

 buttocks often high, leaving a depressiofi above the junction of the tail, which 

 is set on high; joints short and strong; the tendons often weak; legs clean 

 and free from coarse hair ; feet always good, though rather flat when reared 

 upon moist pastures ; the skin fine, and mane silky and abundant ; the color 



is generally gray, but there are some grand black Percherons Docile, 



patient, honest workers, v^g^j|fe/J^,Per^rons are unexcitable, but active 



