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Rum pony which had not been crossed with a zebra 

 producing a colt striped over the croup is not very great. 



Mulatto\s Second Foal. 



The second foal of Mulatto was born on the 16th July, 

 1897, the period of gestation being 330 days — twelve days 

 shorter than in the case of Romulus. The dam (Mulatto, 

 Fig. 40) has already been sufficiently described. The sire 

 (Benazrek, Fig. 4lj, bred by the late Earl of Warwick, is 

 a grey Arab, a son of Azrek, for some time a member of 

 Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's famous stud at Crabbet Park, 

 Sussex. Azrek, also a grey, belonged to the ancient 

 Seglawi Jedran family. Benazrek's dam (Shemptes) was 

 also originally a grey; now she is almost white. I have 

 had under observation for some time three ^' colts ^' by 

 Benazrek. One, having a well-bred bay mare for her 

 dam, was of a reddish dun colour at birth, with a blaze. 

 This " colt " (now — 1898 — rising three) will ultimately be 

 grey like her sire. Even at birth there were no indications 

 of stripes. A second foal by Benazrek (also rising three) 

 had for her dam a dark grey thoroughbred Irish pony. 

 This foal was at birth of a dull chestnut colour, but now 

 she is a dark grey not unlike her dam. Like the above- 

 mentioned foal, this filly has never shown any stripes. 

 Benazrek's third foal (born May 30th, 1897) has for her 

 dam a flea-bitten 13 hands New Forest pony, in which 

 there may very well be a trace of Arab blood. 



This pony had a mule foal (Fig. 42) to a Forest donkey 

 in 1895, but missed having a foal in 1896. At birth her 

 foal to Benazrek was of a reddish dun colour ; when three 

 months old the foal was of a light grey colour ; at eight 

 months a dark grey, with ablaze and a small reddish patch 

 near the left nostril. This foal when a few days old had a 

 number of stripes. There was a distinct dorsal band, a 

 stripe nearly two inches in width across the withers in the 

 position of the shoulder stripe in the common ass, and in 

 front of this on each side of the neck two narrow cervical 

 stripes. There were also three faint vertical stripes extend- 



