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just as much diversity of colour in the racehorses as 

 in the others, yet the quality of the colours would 

 be very much the best in the better bred animals. 

 I will enumerate the principal colours : — 



Black. 



Black -brown. 



Black-chestnut. 



Brown. 



Bay-brown. 



Bay. 



Yellow-bay. 



Dun. 



!Mouse-colour. 



Black-roan. 



Bay-roan. 



Strawberry. 



Chestnut -roan. 



Grey-roan. 



Dark chestnut. 



Eed chestnut. 



Light chestnut. 



Piebald. 



Skewbald. 



Spotted. 



Cream-colour, black points. 



Cream-colour, white points. 



Iron-grey. 



Dapple grey. 



White. 



It will thus be seen that there are twenty-five 

 distinct colours, most of which can be counted over 

 again by being found mixed with white faces and 

 legs. It will be found, however, that all are either 

 shades or mixtures of six primary colours : black, 

 brown, bay, dun, chestnut, and white. 



It would be useless and impracticable to try to 

 assign different qualities to each of these colours, 

 although it is quite possible that there are pecu- 

 liarities of disposition attached to nearly every one 

 of them. I will, however, point out a few peculiarities 

 which have come under my notice as generally allied 

 to different colours. 



To begin with. Although black horses are to be 

 found in every breed, yet this colour is most common 



