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Title: Island Home stud of Percheron horses : Island Home Stock Farm, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Mich. ... : Savage & Farnum, proprietors
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage & Farnum Island Home Stock Farm (Grosse Ile, Mich.)
Subjects: Island Home Stock Farm (Grosse Ile, Mich.) Horses Percheron horse Percheron horse Percheron horse
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : John F. Eby & Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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that the finest and most valuable Percherons—inwhich is preserved the style, quality and finish of the oiiginal type, withthe increased weight now demanded, can only be found in individualsdescended from animals of Arab origin, increased in size by selecting thelargest males and females and a judicious system of in-breeding. This has i-esulted in a close relationship of all the finest Percheronfamilies of the present time which are owned by the most progressive andsuccessful breeders and stallioners in the Perche, and only in whose posses-sion the finest individuals can be found, in which the same blood is traceablefor ages. The valuable qualities possessed by these animals, that have been con-centrated for generations through a cai-eful system of in-and-in-breeding,is the great source of reliance upon which we depend for their prepotency,or the capability of transmitting with absolute certainty the valuablequalities of their race—a power never possessed by animals of mixed blood.
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VERT OAL.L.ANT 3550 (2464). (For pedigree see page 35.) PERCHERON HORSES. 27 NOTED PEROHEROI^ SIRES. coco II (714). (Recorded with pedigree in the Percheroa Stud Book of France.) Dapple gray; foaled 1857; bred in the department of the Orne. Gotby Vieux Chaslin (713) (belonging to Mr. Theodore Vinault, of La FerteBernard, department of the Sarthe), he by Coco (712) (belonging to Mr.Chounard, then residing at Champeau, department of Eure and Loir), heby Mignon (715) (belonging to Mr. Poilpre, of Montmirail, Sarthe), he byJean Le Blanc (739), he being a direct descendant of the famous Arabstallion Gallipoli, that stood at the stud stables of Pin, near Bellesme, about1820. Coco II was purchased when a colt by Mr. Vinault, of La FerteBernard, who kept him until his death. This stallion attained greater famethan any other horse bred in the Perche, not only through his noble ances-try, but from his great individual merit as a stock getter. His grandsireCoco (712) was bred by Mr. Poilpre, of

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