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some other parts of its body plainly marked with stripes. Stripes 

 on the body, not to mention those on the legs, are extremely 

 rare with horses of all kinds in Europe, and are almost unknown 

 in the case of Arabians." But the case is made more striking 

 by the fact that the hair of mane on these colts was short, stiff, 

 and upright, like that of the quagga. Darwin says " there can 

 be no doubt that the quagga affected the character of the off- 

 spring subsequently begot by the black Arabian horse." 



A mare once bred to a jack and afterwards bred to a horse 

 is believed to be so influenced by the impregnation from the 

 jack as to affect the character of future colts of hers gotten by 

 stallions. Dr. Burgess, of Denham, Mass., says : " From a mare 

 which had once been served by a jack, I have seen a colt so 

 long-eared, sharp-backed, and rat-tailed that I stopped a second 

 time to see if it were not a mule." "Alexander Morrison, of 

 Bognie," says Miles, "had a fine Clydesdale mare, which in 

 1843 was served by a Spanish ass and produced a mule. She 

 afterwards had a colt by a horse which bore a marked likeness 

 to a mule ; seen at a distance, every one set it down at once as 

 a mule." Many more similar cases can be cited to show that 

 the impression made on the mare is not confined to the first 

 foal, but affects future foals. 



The lesson is clear. The owner of a high-bred mare can not 

 afford to endanger her usefulness in the stud by allowing her ever 

 to go to an inferior horse or jack. The veterinary surgeon to her 

 majesty states that several mares in the royal stud at Hampton 

 Court had foals in one year by Acteon, but which had the mark- 

 ings of Colonel, the horse to which the mares had all been bred 

 the year previous. Colonel had a white hind fetlock and a stripe 

 in the face, and Acteon was perfectly free from white. George 

 T. Allman, of Tennessee, says : " I bred a bay mare, black 

 points, to Watson, a son of Lexington, who is a golden chest- 

 nut, large star, both hind and near front ankles white. After 

 dropping her foal I bred the same mare to my saddle-stallion, 

 Prince Pulaski, a very dark chestnut, no white save a very 

 small star; this produce was a fac-simile of Watson in every 

 particular" 



