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especially when derived from Flying Childers and his sons, 

 there have been more bays ; and the line through Sir Peter 

 evidently containing a stronger infusion of the Darley 

 Arabian blood than those generally through Woodpecker 

 has not only handed down bay horses, but they have 

 been more celebrated for their stoutness and gameness. 

 Sultan, of the Woodpecker line, said to be like the Dar- 

 ley Arabian in figure and appearance, was bay, and he 

 had derived advantage of more Darley Arabian blood 

 through his dam, by Williamson's Ditto, and Sir Peter. 

 Not only was the colour more confirmed in his son. Bay 

 Middleton, but stoutness as well, and through his dam. 

 Cobweb, he had still further infusions of the Darley 

 Arabian blood. It must not be supposed that it is argued 

 the increased stoutness was derived from the change of 

 colour from chestnut to bay, but it is a tolerably fair and 

 conclusive inference that as the bay colour came in and 

 was perpetuated or confirmed by the infusion of the Darley 

 Arabian blood, the increased stoutness and gameness is 

 also to be attributed to the same source,the one being the 

 sign, the other the result. It is true that Highflyer's dam, 

 like Woodpecker's, was from another family, namely, the 

 Godolphin Arabian ; but in the Woodpecker line it was 

 carried on still in Buzzard, whose dam was by a horse 

 of that family ; but in the case of Highflyer it was not 

 so, as his son's (Sir Peter) dam was by Snap, son of 

 Snip, grandson of the Darley Arabian, who seems to 

 have snapped and snipped off some of that blood brought 

 in by Highflyer's dam. I could proceed with tin's or a 

 similar train of reasoning, but I do not wish to be tedious. 



