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cases white legs. "This was a more violent cross than either 

 of the others, and accordingly made less way ; the impres- 

 sion was more transient and the influence exercised sooner 

 obliterated. The horse himself was a bay with great bone 

 and action. The colour, the white leg, the rare bottom 

 Avere the symptoms which betokened the traces of the blood 

 of the Shadingfield stock. The stock were a light-hearted, 

 high-spirited race, but they were too often fiery tempered." 

 But, as we have seen that chestnut is a characteristic of the 



Fm. 104. Typical Suffolk Punch, ' Saturn.' 



North African horses, and that the Burgundian breed — one of 

 those developed from the infusion of Libyan blood into the horses 

 of the North — was said to be of a chestnut colour, the improve- 

 ments produced in the Suffolk Punch by the chestnuts intro- 

 duced by Mr Blake and Mr Wright were due to the fact that 

 the cross had in it more African blood than the old stock. 

 Again, since bay is the grand characteristic colour of the 

 North African horse, the Shadingfield stallion, with his grand 

 action and high spirit, had still more of the same blood in him, 



