[2] His owner trained him in mounted trotting before entrusting him to Ferdinand Dufour at Pont-l'Évêque,[6] and the two men raced him between the ages of 3 and 5.

[14] His success as a stallion was such that, for the first time in their history, the Haras Nationaux had to draw lots to distribute cards granting the right to stud.

[14] In 1900, according to Caen veterinarian Alfred Gallier, the number of requests for Fuschia and Harley to be covered by a brood mare exceeded the natural possibilities of these two stallions.

[15] In recent breeding years, trotting mares capable of a mileage reduction of less than 1 min 40 s are prioritized for covering.

[14] On 7 April 1900, Le Sport universel illustré magazine described him as a trotter with sloping spokes and regular conformation.

[14] Criticism focuses on its "common" appearance, with a head considered very ugly, and limb extremities betraying a lack of blood.

[4][20] His breeder bought the mare Symphonie (or Sympathie) at the Tattersall horse market sales, and had her covered by the stallion Lavater, who had a reputation for producing ugly foals.

[2] The mare Lady Pierce was sold by an American trotting competitor on the promise that she would be able to achieve a mile reduction of 1 min 40 sec.

[2] Reynolds proved disappointing on the track, achieving a kilometer reduction of just 1 min 56 s.[2] Fuschia is a grandson of Conquérant,[21] and therefore by him of Young Rattler, out of the Godolphin Arabian lineage.

[29] The winners of the Derby des trotteurs de Rouen, one of the great classics of the era, were, with one exception, exclusively sired by him from 1893 to 1905.

[14] According to Maurice O'Neill (1949), during his stallion career at the Haras national du Pin, Fuschia assumed such importance in Normandy horse breeding from 1890 onwards "that there is not, today, a French Trotter who is not strongly 'inbred' to him".

[39] According to Haras Georges Bonnefont, Fuschia's offspring have a "common" appearance, a heavy head and lymphatic tissues, unless crossed with a Thoroughbred mare.

[40] This was also the opinion published in 1894 in La Quinzaine littéraire: "Cet étalon commun fait de vilaines têtes greffées sur des encolures trop courtes" ("This common stallion makes ugly heads grafted onto necks that are too short").

[41] In his book Les Bêtes, ces inconnues (1954), Jean Éparvier cites a stallion named "Fuschia" (although we don't know if it's this one or another), who would only cover chestnut mares.