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agree with the award in favour of the gay but light French group. 
The decision practically amounts to this, that by Frenchmen the 
Boulonnais horses are considered superior to the Shire and Clydes- 
dale horses even for " heavy draught," — an opinion with which 
few who know anything of those British breeds will be inclined 
to concur. In the same contest, a very fine group of Percheron 
horses, shown by the Paris Omnibus Company, were, like Mr. 
Drew's mares, awarded a well-deserved diploma of honour. It 
was evident that the French could not understand the size and 
weight of our heavy horses. An English visitor had two or 
three of Mr. Drew's and Mr. Garrett's horses " trotted out " to 
show them to some French friends who really appreciated them, 
but the remarks of the bystanders, made with all freedom, 
amounted to this : — " My dear sir, this isn't a horse, it is an 
elephant." 
Anglo-Norman Horses. — As the name would indicate, this race 
has been formed by a cross between English sires and Norman 
dams. It claims an age of about forty years, and occupies a 
prominent position among the French breeds. The ancient 
carriage and saddle horses of Normandy, though useful and 
hardy, were coarse and not very handsome ; and an attempt was 
made to improve their form and quality by an infusion from 
English thoroughbred sires. Now and again the result has been 
successful, but it is spc^ken of as having been very uncertain. 
Tlie Norfolk Cob next got a trial, and in this case the result 
has been, as a rule, satisfactory. Indeed, it is mainly through 
the agency of the Norfolk Cob that the Norman horses have 
been brought to what they are — a thoroughly good class of 
carriage and saddle horses. Though the English thoroughbred 
sires were not successful alone, it is the general impression 
that their contact with the Norman breed materially aided the 
Norfolk sires. At the dispersion, in 1874, of the stud of Anglo- 
Norman horses— a stud that contained a large percentage of 
English blood — belonging to the late Marquis de Croix Ser- 
quigny, 7 young mares brought an average of 130Z. ; 8 aged 
mares, 174/ ; 12 yearlings, 71/. ; 9 two-year-olds, 112/; 4 three- 
year-olds, 180/. ; 7 four-year-olds, 172/.; and 10 horses in use, 
153/. each. Trotting-matches are held throughout France in 
great numbers, and the records of the Anglo-Norman horses are 
highly creditable. 
Though bred in the same province, the Anglo-Normans have 
never been crossed to any appreciable extent with the Percherons, 
and the real Anglo-Normans are nearly as uniform in stamp as the 
race of grevs. \\c say real Anglo-Normans, because the good name 
that tlie race has a( (|uire(l has tempted horse-dealers to pass off lor 
Anglo-Normnns many horses which really have yery little I'inglish 
