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culiarity of Bonnie Scotland, and, as I have shown, of some of his 

 colts, it is likely that there was an inherited tendency in that direction 

 which might have remained latent under better management. The 

 maternal grandam of these colts was Columbia by Bonnie Scotland 

 and she was a grandaughter of Fashion by imported Trustee. Thus 

 the thoroughbred predominates on that side of the house, and their 

 action is that of the thoroughbred. As one has done fairly well with 

 tips, the other stUl better barefooted, the inference is just that weight 

 is not necessary for that kind of a gait, notwithstanding that such is 

 the general opinion of experts. 



