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the blood of D'Arcy's White Turk, five of the Lister Turk, six 

 of Spanker, who was son of D'Arcy's Yellow Turk, and two of 

 the Leeds Arabian ^ Spiletta the dam of Eclipse was bay, his 

 sire Marske was brown, whilst he himself was chestnut. But 

 we have learned above (p. 174) that brown is not found in Al- 

 Khamseh, but only in the inferior strains, that dun is essentially 

 a kadish colour, and accordingly the Yellow Turk who con- 

 tributed so much towards the blood of Eclipse was a Turkish 

 horse of very doubtful lineage ; and we have also shown that 



Fig. 10.3. Flying Childers. 



greys and whites, even when reckoned in Al-Khamseh, must be 

 regarded as impregnated with Upper Asiatic blood (p. 174). 

 We also suspected (p. 187) that chestnut might prove to be 

 the outcome of an admixture of Upper Asiatic blood with the 

 Libyan ; and the case of Eclipse, who was the outcome not only 

 of several bay ancestors, but also of the Yellow Turk, and 

 others whose purity of blood we have shown to be very doubtful, 

 points to the same conclusion. 



The evidence of the colours of the imported stallions renders 



1 Charles Eichardson, The English Turf (1901), p. 287. 



