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The following pedigrees, similarly followed out, of the first three fillies 

 and the first three colts met with in the last published volume (xxx) of the 

 Shire stud-book will show that the roan has at least one roan ancestor in 

 every generation,^ and that therefore roan behaves as a dominant to the 

 other colours : — 



Tory, red roan, X Bounce. 

 Roan Jumbo, roan. 

 Muckton Nonsucli, imj, X Muekton Violet, roan. 

 Blythwood Conqueror, bay, X North Cotes Primrose, red roai 

 Ashwell Conquering Prince, bat/, X Garston's Lady, bine roan. 



Filly, bay orredroan{tosiledl9 



Flower, roan. 



King of Keele, X Darling, roan, 

 bay. I 



Knottingley Eoyal, X Bankone Darling, roan, 

 bay. I 



Filly, roan (foaled 1907). 



Horse, roan. 

 Samson, brown, X Mare (colour not recorded). 

 Emperor, roan. 

 England's Wonder, roan, X Mare, roan. 

 Carbon, brown, X Bonny, roan. 

 Monaco, bay, X Trim, roan. 



Baroness, roan. 



Harold, brown, X Blue Bell, bhie roan. 



Horbling Harold, blue roan, X Primula, brown. 

 Hitchin Magnet, bay, X Silver Tail, bhie roan. 

 Anglian Harold, roan. 



Tbe Shire stud-book is comparatively young, and so the pedigrees are not Ion 



