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speaking, horses clip out lighter coloured than they 

 appear in their natural coats, and the difference is 

 sometimes wonderful, still, with the exception of very 

 rare cases, they generally clip out to a colour strongly 

 savouring of dun, with all its intermediate shades 

 between very light and very dark. 



The old adage that " A good horse is never a bad 

 colour " contains precisely the same amount of truth 

 as its converse, viz., ''A bad horse is never a good 

 colour." By this definition the quality of colour is 

 put at a discount ^s against the capability of the 

 horse itself. Exceptions, however, are necessary in 

 order to prove rules, and, when a number of horses 

 are passed through hand, and a faithful record kept, 

 it will be found on the average that good horses are 

 generally good coloured. 



