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quite easy to trace the source from which the 

 colour is inherited. It may be a long while 

 back — possibly to Stumps by Wicket. Personally, 

 I love a grey racehorse, and he has the advantage 

 that one can always see him in a race, but I never 

 saw a real flyer of this colour.^ I have always had 

 a special fancy for odd-coloured horses, and should 

 like to win the Derby (with anything, but pre- 

 ferably) with a dun or a piebald — this, however, 

 is an ambition that is not likely to be gratified. 

 The period of a foal's life that may be said 

 to be most precarious is when it is about nine 

 days old. Then great care must be taken that 

 neither the dam nor the foal catch cold. In my 

 humble opinion fresh air is the best thing, and 

 shutting up in a box the worst thing. Of course, 



1 Perhaps not a " real flyer," for my Breeder may take a very 

 high standard of what that means ; but there have been some 

 good grey horses of late years. Strathconan and many of his 

 grey sons and daughters won races of all sorts ; Eastern Emperor, 

 for example, carried the late Duke of Beaufort's light blue and 

 white hoops successfully in the Royal Hunt Cup and the Chester 

 Cup. Le Sancy was also a really good horse, though it is true 

 that when third to Seabreeze and Ayrshire for the ^^ 10,000 

 Lancashire Plate — ^^ 10,222 10^. lod. it was worth, to be quite 

 accurate — he had an advantage in the weights. His offspring, 

 mostly greys, have done and are doing admirably in France, so 

 much so that when his owner consented to receive a few strange 

 mares he fixed the fee at ^^480, and some breeders would gladly 

 have paid this high price had the son of Atlantic and Gem of 

 Gems lived, Holocauste was a Le Sancy. — Ed. 



