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goes back to one of the grandfatliers or grand- 

 mothers, but this is not the case with grey. 



A grey foal is rarely, if ever, bred from two 

 parents who are neither of them grey themselves, 

 even though one of the parents may come from a 

 grey stock. That is, if the colour is once lost in a 

 family it will not come back again. 



For instance, if a chestnut mare be put to a 

 brown or bla,ck horse she may have a brown filly foal, 

 and this foal might be put to a grey horse or a bay 

 horse and a chestnut foal might be the result. But 

 if a grey mare has a foal that is not grey, that foal 

 will not produce a grey foal unless put to a grey. 



There are four instances given of exceptions to 

 this rule in the Stud Book, but it is quite possible 

 that the information about them is not correct. It 

 would, perhaps, be correct as to the colour of the 

 animal itself, but might very possibly be mistaken 

 as to the colour of one of its parents. 



The size of the foal depends more on the size of 

 the dam than the sire. If a mare is small herself, 

 and breeds small stock generally, she will breed 

 small to any horse, even if it is a large one that she 

 is put to. But if she is a large roomy mare, she 

 may, if the blood suits her, breed a large foal to a 

 small horse, even though she may, as a rule, have 

 previously bred small stock. 



We therefore arrive at this conclusion, that in 

 order to secure full-sized animals it is more neces- 



