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tnic brown horse hairs unless some 

 shades of bay or chestnut be so called. 

 The tan shade is due to an alternation 

 of black and bay hairs, the bay hairs 

 being very dark and in many cases only 

 showing bay on the outward ends. The 

 horse designated as seal brown is a 

 black in which not all the bay has 

 disajji^eared. There is just enough of 

 the bay tendency left to produce lighter 

 shades in places on the body. 



Black varies in shade from the so- 

 called seal brown to the jet black. 

 Most black horses when exposed to the 

 sun for some weeks show a faded condi- 

 tion. The ends of the hair show a bay 

 tinge. 



The chestnut coats present a variety 

 of shades from the dark liver color to 

 the light sorrel. The mane and tail 

 follow closely the body shades in 

 variety, the lighter chestnuts often 

 showing the crushed strawberry or 

 flaxen shade in the hair of the mane and 



tail. There is the ])resence of enough 

 of white hairs among the chestnut ones 

 to give it the light effect. 



.MANY MATINGS STUDIED. 



In going through the American Saddle 

 Horse Register I secured the color in 

 5,591 matings, which involve the color 

 of 16,773 horses. To these numbers I 

 am able to add from vSturtevant's tables 

 8,464 matings, giving a total of 14,055 

 matings or the color of 42,165 horses. 

 This niimber is sufficiently large, it 

 seems to me, to enable proper deduc- 

 tions to be drawn, unless it is in the case 

 of the rare colors. 



The tables herein gi\'en make no 

 distinction in the shades enumerated 

 for the reason that the registration books 

 do not give them. The percentages 

 are figured in round numbers so as to 

 exclude all fractions. 



The tabulated matings and the re- 

 .sultant foals are: 



CHESTNUT X CHESTNUT. 



Breed Chestnut Black Bronni Bay 



Thoroughbred 1095 9 (bav or brownj 



Shire 44 1 l" 5 



Trotter 69 



Saddle 410 



Total 1618 16 not chestnut 



99% 1% 



UT X CHESTN1 

 197 



>TNUT X BLAC 

 111 83 



i3% 24 '^ 



TNUT X BROW 

 60 32 



24% 12^ 



CHESTNUT X 



597 56 



41% 4J 



HI.ACK .\ ML.\( K. 



PerchcTon 49 2 not blaik 



Shire 2 39 .? 



Clydesdale • 36 2 



Trotter 2 34 4 2 



Saddle 7 137 7 



Total ,. 11 295 15 5 



3% 90% 5% 2% 



BLACK X BROWN. 



Breed Chestnut Black Brown Bay 



Thoroughbred H 20 12 



Shire 4 39 36 19 



Clydesdale 1 61 106 34 



Trotter 1 11 9 5 



Satldle 8 79 48 45 



Total 14 198 219 115 



3% 36% 40% 21% 



Authority 



Hurst 



Wilson 



Sturtcvant 



Anderson 



Harper 



Wilson 



Wil-con 



Sturtcvant 



Antlcrson 



Authority 



Wilson 



Wilson 



Wilson 



Sturtcvant 



Anderson 



