A SIX HORSE-POWER HORSE
A correspondent of a French newspaper desiring to ascertain the actual strength of a powerful horse, visited several of the stables that use the finest horses in Paris, and in ■those of a good trucking company he selected an eight-year-old Percheron, which for three years has been en'aged continually in hauling cut stone for "building- purposes. This horse seemed to him the most powerful in Paris. H$ tested the animal and it was able to haul a block of stone about 20ft cube, weighing 13J tons, placed upon a car rthat weighed 44 ttons,-" making! a total weight of 172 tons. This is a task to which six horses would ordinarily be put.
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Grey River Argus, 12 April 1911, Page 2
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