COLOR IN THE AMERICAN HARNESS HORSE. J I ; 



roan ami also the two gray foals of Brown Hal probably 

 get their color from their dams, since in all cases the-e \\cre. 

 daughter- "f r. MII or gray sires. As to the kind of roan- these 

 I can on! that Margrave and one of his foals, and one 



of tin- foal- of Tom Hal, Jr., are all red roans. 



I li md .-ix roan foals which had neither pan-in roan. 



( )m- was from a dun man-. One was from two bays and another 

 was from ut and a bay, the chestnut beinv; Robert 



M' , which almost certainly carried no gray factor. An- 



other \\.i- from a bay sire and a chestnut dam. The other i\\.. 

 hhada . , and at least one of them was a black roan. 



d i iced by the thousands of cases of mat in- 

 tin r hor-e- ,in isa very small jx-rcentage. It i- to be 

 noii. eel thai are not closely related. Even tin t\\<> 

 rued .11 I'ilot, Jr., and one Sontag Mohauk. 

 I eems to me probable that red roan at least is an ordinary 

 dominant . ami that all but oiu? of the above cases are mi -take- or 



ption-. h i- (|iiii' ible that all horses having the fai 



A' .(I- i .n. the i\| an depending upon the color the IIIM 



\\iiulil ha\e been if he had not had that factor. This, if cor- 

 .plain- away the dilhculty presented in the next paragraph 

 in -o far as r- Mil is concerned. 



1 he [elation I K-t \veen gray and roan is not clear. It seem- 

 probable that some of the black roans may be connected \\iih 

 . , bin an examination of the tables given above will convince 

 one i hat. in 1. the two colors are quite distinct. 1 ha\e 



found niil\ t\\o in-tances of the mating together of grays and 

 roan-, ami in both the result was gray. Of course much im-iv 

 e\ idem e \\oiild be m -eded in order to find out how tin \ ,ut 

 io\\ard each other. The relation between these two laci.>r- 

 aml the bay factm i-> also not quite clear. It is evident that the 

 presence of eitln r can conceal bay, but whether or not either 

 can .i|>pear iii the absence of the bay factor is not certain. I am 

 inclined in think that they can. If gray cannot we ha\e an 

 explanation of the gray foals from the black Pi-pute, but 

 m> help in the much harder problem concerning hi- bay half- 

 brother, liobby Burns. One would expect to tmd -<ine ch. 

 nut- carrying gray or roan factors (if the ChhR horses are ch< 



