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marks of the horse Colonel — a white hind fetlock, for 

 instance, and a white mark or stripe on the face ; and 

 Actaeon was perfectly free from white. The mares 

 had all bred from Colonel the previous year.' "* 



' A colt, the property of the Earl of Suffield, got by 

 Laurel, so resembled another horse (Camel) that it was 

 whispered — nay, even asserted at Newmarket — that 

 it must have been got by Camel. It was ascertained, 

 however, that the only relation which the colt bore 

 to Camel was that the latter had served his mother 

 the previous season. 't 



'Mr. George T. AUman, of Tennessee, gives the 

 following case that came under his own observation : 

 " I bred a bay mare, black points to Watson, a son of 

 Lexington, who is a golden chestnut, large star, both 

 hind and near front ankles white. After dropping the 

 foal to Watson, I bred the same mare to my saddle- 

 stallion. Prince Pulaski, a very dark chestnut, no 

 white save a very small star ; this produce was a 

 facsimile of Watson in every particular." 't 



' Alexander Morrison, Esq., of Bognie, had a fine 

 Clydesdale mare which, in 1843, was served by a 

 Spanish ass, and produced a mule. She afterwards 

 had a colt by a horse, which bore a very marked 

 likeness to a mule ; seen at a distance everyone set it 



* Fa/rmers' Magazine, vol. xxxv., p. 130. 



t Journal of the Highland Agricultural Society, 1857-1859, 

 J). 26. 



J ' Eural Sun,' as quoted in National Live Stoch Jov/rnal, 

 June, 1877, p. 245. 



