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About the Percheron Breed
.In the Percheron Horse we have one of the
most popular draught horses to be found at work today, and its
popularity extends far beyond France, where it originated, for
it is renowned not only in Great Britain but in America, Canada
and other parts of the British Commonwealth. Its many qualities
have caused the breed to spread through many Continental qualities,
and of all heavy breeds it is perhaps the most widely dispersed
through the world.
As is the case with so many, it is an admixture, based probably
upon the working horse of Belgium and Northern France, where
a strong, short-legged and active horse was the type required.
The actual credit for founding the Percheron Horse is due to
a certain number of French farmers who, some hundred and fifty
years ago, farmed a small area not more than perhaps 60 miles
square, the district being known as Le Perche, from which of
course the horse takes its name. There is no doubt they produced
an animal of outstanding qualities.
The horse is of low draught, having a short and compact body
of tremendous depth, with quarters of outstanding size. Exceptionally
short-legged, the horse carries great bone, and it is surprising
that so heavy a horse can be so active, for that is indeed what
it is, and it is claimed of the Percheron that for farming work
it is a great saver of time in getting to its daily job. The
fact that it is a good footed horse may be the result of having
been worked on stone block roads; none but horses of good, hard,
blue feet such as those possessed by the Percheron could stand
up to that kind of work, and it has, with them, well-set joints
and flat, flinty bone. The horse, of course, is clean-legged;
that is, it is devoid of hair or ‘feather’. Percherons
are docile and very easily handled, and because of this they
are easy to break, especially if they have been handled as foals,
which is of considerable advantage in days when labour is difficult
to obtain and so much of it is unskilled.
Description: The British Percheron is essentially a heavy-draught
horse possessing great muscular development combined with style
and activity. Should possess ample bone of good quality, and
give a general impression of balance and power. Colour, grey
or black only, with a minimum of white. Skin and coat of fine
quality. Size; stallions not less than 16.3 hands, and mares
not less than 16.1 hands, but width and depth not to be sacrificed
in height and quality. Head, wide across eyes, which should
be full and docile; ears medium in size and erect; deep cheek,
curved on lower side, not long from eye to nose; intelligent
expression. Body strong, neck not short, stallions full arched
crest, wide chest, deep well laid shoulders; back strong and
short; ribs wide and deep, deep at flank; hindquarters of exceptional
width and long from hips to tail, avoiding any suggestion of
goose rump. Limbs short and strong and full second thighs, big
knees and broad hocks; heavy flat bone, short cannons, pasterns
of medium length, feet of reasonable size and good quality hard
blue horn. Limbs as clean and free from hair as possible. Action,
straight, bold, with a long free stride rather than short, snappy
action. Hocks well flexed and kept close.
Little more need be said of this admirable breed. Its whole
future is dependent upon the extent to which the heavy horse
survives the onslaught of machinery, and it may be that the
breed will flourish in some countries (for the Percheron has
travelled far afield) and decline in others. In this connection
there is little enough evidence for an opinion to be formed
as to whether the clean-legged horse (Percheron or Suffolk)
has proved to be the more suitable, compared with the breeds
carrying a heavy growth of hair on heels and legs (Shires and
Clydesdales).
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