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writing in 1855, calculated that in the previous thirty years the Derby had been won by 

 sixteen bays, seven chestnuts, and seven browns ; the St. Leger by seventeen bays, eight 

 browns, and five chestnuts. Since 1S55 the proportionate number of bays has been maintained, 

 the number of chestnuts has increased, the number of browns diminished, and no grey or roan 

 has won either of these great stakes. Gustavus, a grey, won the Derby in 1821, and Frederick, 

 another grey, won the same race in 1829 ; nothing of that colour since. There has been no grey 

 horse of repute since Chanticleer, who, at four and five years old, in 1847 and 1848, won many 

 Royal Plates, the Goodwood Stakes, and the Doncaster Cup. There were only two grey stallions 





ORLANDO, WHO WON THE DERBY, RUNNING SECOND TO THE KOUR-YEAR-ULD RUNNING REIN. 



named in the " Racing Calendar " of 1872— Master Bagot, an iron grey; and the Strathconan, 

 a light grey, descended from Chanticleer, through his dam. Strathconan is credited with 

 only nine foals, none of them grey ; and Master Bagot with only one, a bay. Roans came 

 into notice in 1864, when Rapid Rhone won the Claret Stakes at Newmarket for the Earl of 

 Glasgow, beating the St. Leger winner, Lord Clifden. He was of the Physalis blood ; and 

 the earl bred many of the same tribe, amongst which in the stud bequeathed to General Peel 

 were " Brother to Rapid Rhone," a roan horse, Beauvale, and others. A friend writes : " In 

 a visit to Lord Glasgow's stud farm, in 1865, I saw a yearling filly, in colour a beautiful yellow 

 dun, but as she never ran she was probably converted, like many other foals on the same 

 farm, into cats'-meat ; for such was the custom of a peer as eccentric as any ever described 

 in a French romance." The roan thorough-bred sires have been chiefly employed in covering 

 half-bred mares. 



