INHERITANCE IN RAGE HORSES 81 



Stud Book of 1909 (Vol. XXI.) the same colour is 

 given, in spite of the fact that it ran always as a 

 chestnut and never was anything else but a chestnut. 

 Even the indexes of the various Racing Calendars 

 give it as a chestnut. 



The second case is " Stale News," alleged to be 

 a bay coming from a chestnut stallion out of a 

 chestnut mare. In spite of all inquiries 1 could get 

 no explanation, and it appeared to remain a fact that 

 *' Stale News " was really a bay. But a few days ago 

 the enigma was solved in a very simple w^ay : The 

 dam of "Stale News" is no chestnut at all, but a 

 bay mare, and so there is nothing extraordinary in 

 her daughter's bay coat. These errors never happen 

 in Stud Books which are specially kept for the 

 breeding of chestnuts only. For instance, we shall find 

 none in the Suffolk horses, which are chestnut without 

 exception ; nor in the Prussian half-bred Stud 

 Trakehnen, w^here a chestnut herd is kept, has 

 such a case ever happened. I am informed by 

 Herr von Oettingen, the Governor of the Stud, that 

 a stud book for the chestnut herd has been kept for 

 over one-hundred-and-hfty years. 



So it is, I think, quite proven that chestnuts 

 crossed by chestnuts always give chestnuts, and 

 that (D D) bays crossed by chestnuts always pro- 

 duce bays. 



One of the best known (D D) bays was the 

 famous thoroughbred stallion " St. Simon," who 

 died two years ago. All his progeny were bays 

 or browns, with the exception of the very last one, 



