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Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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istic of the breed being to carry the head andthe tail high ; broad in the stitie; very strong, broad hock, stand-ing on clean, flat, cordy legs ; very broad, strong joints in kneeas well as hock; suflicient length of pasterns to give themelasticity ; and, underneath all, feet formed to stand the road, The most striking characteristics and strong point of thebreed is their wonderful elasticity and uniformly high knee andhock action, which peculiarly adapts them for use as gentle-mens driving horses, over all other breeds of coach horses. A still further commendation for them to our people is thecertainty with which they transmit their own good qualities totheir offspring. For more than half a century they have beenbred under the strictest government supervision, so that theirpedigrees are beyond dispute. The government certificate ofbreeding accompanies each animal, and they all trace directlyto the thoroughbred. In color they are mostly bays and browns, with but littlewhite markings.
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ilSiiiii, mm 111 rWi;! CHAPTER XIV. DRAFT HORSES. The Percheron Horse — Breed divided into three classes — Percheron, sonof the Arabian — As a draft horse — Road qualities — English draftor shire horse — Origin and history — Disposition — Importers — TheClydesdale horse — Introduced into Scotland in thirteenth century —Clydesdale Society of America — Importers. THE PERCHEROX HORSE. THE Percheron horse in his own country, Perche, France,is divided into three classes; first, the light Percheron,in which the sanguine tera))erament predominates ; second, thedraft Percheron, in which the lymphatic temperament is themost fully developed ; and, third, the Percheron intermediatelybetween these two, partaking of the one by its lightness andthe other by its muscular force. Breeders of Percherons in Perche preserve pure and with-out intermixture the three types; but the Percheron horse asbred for export — chiefly to the United States of America — isthe second type, th

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