Just to settle a controversy with some Percheron-mad Oregonian friends, we had several horses of the two different types measured then and there.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
Sid romped home like a Percheron colt and Bacon got to first.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour
Phil heard a rustling over behind the straw stack, and then out trotted a big, black draft horse, a heavy-footed, broad-backed Percheron, to his astonishment.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.