244 BREEDING 



"1st. 24648 ' Eoyal Duchess', grey, was served as a two-year-old by 

 ' Dunsmore Combination', which is a dark-lnown, and she produced a grey 

 foal which was rather of the Clydesdale type. As a three-year-old she was 

 served by ' Dunsmore Bismarck ', a brown horse, and produced another grey, 

 which also took after that sire in character of legs and hair, which was rather 

 inclined to be curly. The following year she was served by ' Dunsmore 

 Jameson ', which is a bay. She then produced a bay-brown of a class re- 

 sembling most of that horse's get, and not the least bit resembling either 

 of the other two horses she had been served by, the colt having moi'e size 

 and scale than any of the others. She was again served by 'Dunsmore 

 Jameson ', and produced another bay-brown colt, which died when it was 

 about six weeks old. She is now suckling a grey by the same horse, which 

 is at present not so strong as the two she bred previously by him." — 

 T. Eivart, Dunsmore Home Farm, Rughy. 



20. " In my experience I have never known a sire when put to a mare 

 to influence foals from her by other sires." — Alfred S. Day, Bet^keley Stud, 

 Crewe. 



21. "I have no experience of violent crosses, but where animals of 

 the same breed are used, I do not think there is anything in the matter 

 suggested by your cjuestion." — E. Dreivry, Holker, Cark-in-Cartmel, 

 Lancashire. 



22. " I have keenly watched the subject for years, but have never seen 

 anything to indicate that the first sire influenced in any way the produce of 

 other sires from the same mare." — 11'. Boicer, East Rudham, Norjolk. 



23. " I have no experience of a case of a mare producing a foal that 

 favoured a previous sire." — T. B. Barling, M.R.C.V.S., Amberley Court, 

 Monmouth. 



24. " My experience has been that a foal from a mare by a different 

 horse to which the same mare has previously bred, does not partake after 

 the first sire in shape or colour. 



" To give one of many examples, the hackney mare ' Bonny Clara' 6419 

 bred to the chestnut horse ' Clovelly ' a chestnut filly foal. The same mare 

 put to 'Derwent' 4737, bi'own, produced a brown filly; the next foal, by 

 ' County Member ' 948, brown, a Iniy filly. 



"Her next three foals are all by 'Royal Danegelt' 5785, chestnut, and 

 are all chestnuts. These several foals varied in shajDe and colour according 

 to their different sires." — H. Starling, Tl\e Paddocks, Elsenham, Essex. 



25. " I have had a number of mares here with foals by trotters 

 (American), Shire horses, thoroughbreds, all of which have afterwards 

 bred to my hackney stallion, and in no case has any trace of a previous 

 impression been found in their immediate or subsequent foals. I am there- 



