New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-02


although % before insisted upon the certain trans.
mission Of the larger portion Of those energies is a.
ways on tho stations side, and il is only in the
longer retention Of IN inferior proportion Of her
qualities by the progeny that the better blood Of the
dam can be traced when bred to an inferior sire.
When bred 10 purer blooded stallion than herself.
the moro pure blood the mare herself has the more
strongly will her own marks descend TO her prog.
cry and the less will they be altered or modified by
those of the sire.
Nov, the Percberon NormAps are clearly pure
race per Sc; We do not mean BY the words thor.
Oueh bred race, but race cspsble Of producing and
reproducing th, mselves ad minimum, unsltered scd
without deterioration Of qualities BY breeding like
sres to lie dams withoutnfusion Of any other blood
just as is done by Durham. Ayrshire OF Adensy
cattle by settlers, pointers, rebounds, and in .
word, by any and all animals Of dstipct and per-
feet varieties Of the same species. The only re-
Variable thing in this case is that suoh should be the
facts under the circumstances Of the Percheron Nor
manr, beirg Orsinally-as they are beyond doubt
tie produce of q cross, although most remote
one in point Of time. The original Norman horse,
now nearly extinct which was the war-horse Of
the iron-clsd cbivAlry Of the earliest ages, and
which is 10 be seen painted on the old stained glass
windows Of the Cathedral at Rouen, and mag.
Efficiently Reproduced by the Baron Msrochetti in
bis magnificent equestrian statues-fsmihar doubt
less TO many of our readers through the spirited
wood. cuts of The London Mustra,cd Nens-of VIII
liam the Conqueror and Richard Ceur de Lion 10
thus accurately described BY the Importer Of the
Percherons into New Jersey: "They average" be
sa,t, and we are personally cosniEsnt Of bis 30.
curscy, "full sixteen hands in hight, with head
" short, thick wide and hollow between the eyes;
claws heavy; ears short and pointed well forward;
neck very short and thick name heavy; shoulder
q" well inclined backward; bsck extremely short;
trump steep; quarters very broad; ebert wide
" and deep; tendOns large; muscles excessively de-
"velOped; legs short, particularly from the knee
and heck to the fetlock, and thence to the coro-
"net, which is covered with long hair covering
" half the hoof much hair on the legs" It was
soon found, even while complete armor was in use,
that these enormous bOny Normans, which are still
the ordinary heavy dfaught horses of France, hsd
not sufficient speed to render the cavalry charge
effective, or suf cent blood to give spirit adequate
to the endurance of long continued toll. The An
dslusian horse, which ia its highest form was
pure barb of Morocco, imported into Spain BY she
Saracen Moors under Tarlk, who has left bis name
10 the rock Of Gibraltar and in It's secondary form
bafbred horse between the African bsrbs and
the old Spanish horse, which had long before re-
ceived large tincture OF Oriental blood from the
Numidian chargers of the Car!hageuiaas who so
long occupied that country, proved in its uomxed
state too hight for the enormous weight Of capsri
soned man. al arms, or if occasionally equal 10 that
weight too costly TO be within the means Of my
but crowned heads. William the COnqueror rode q
Spanish horse at Hastings; and in the earliest days
of Ensih horse-racing Spanish horses were largely
used as progenitOrs. II is indeed ascertained al
most beyond doubt that TO very late period the
Kings of Spain maintained studs or harss OF per.
fecty pure Oriental Barbs, though bred on Spanish
soil. at Cordova and Seville, in ADdslusis. From
these Spanish Barbs, which were largely imported
into England overland from Spain through France,
and which were also introduced into France from
the Netherlands, then . Spanish province where
they were largely used in the army, crossed upon
the old heavy Normsn stock, arose the improved
Norman stock of lie Perche, known as the Porche-
run Normsns. Nor was this single effort, or the
result OF .iDge importation, or single cross. On
the contrary it is certain that from the early part Of
the eleventh century until the final expulsion Of the
Spanar1s from the Low Countries, in the sixteenth
century, there was constant importation going on
Of Spanish or ADdalusihn Bsrbs into Normandy,
both from the North and the South; aud that the
intermpgng Of the breeds went On 90 long, thai 1t
is difficult perhaps now to say whether there 10
more of the Andalusian or of the old Nofmao blood
in the modern Norman, which has become an en-
tire and self reproducing breed. The bone AID
muscle" observes the same writer We have be
fore quoted, "snd much of the form of tho
PeIche ron comes from this horse"-that is, from
the Old Norman war horse previously described;
and be gets his spirit and action from the
" AndalusAn. Docilty comes from both sides.
.sOn the expulsion Of the S2auiards from the
Northern Provinces the supply Of Arabian stall
"Iops was cut off, and since that time, IN the
Perche district Of Normandy, their progeny has
" doubtless been bred in and in; hence the remark
able uniformity Of the breed, and the disposition
to impart their form to their progeny beyond any
"b4eed Of domestic animals witoin my knowledge.
." Another circumstance which l think has tended
"to perpetuste the good qualities Of these horses,
lis the fact of their males being kept entire;
seldipg is, l believe, unknown among the rural
"horses Of France. You may be startled at this
"Dotien Of mine, but if you reflect moment you
must perceive that in such state Of shiOg'-'o
" contrary to our practice and that Of the English