Turning to the Irish records,* we find several notable 

 grey horses. Kildare, winner of a 3-year-old Plate at the 

 Curragh, a King's Plate for 5-year-olds in 1788, for 

 6-year-olds in 1789, and several matches, is one of 

 these. Kildare is described as a " beautiful dapple grey, 

 6 years old, full 15 hands, master of high weight and of 

 good sinew and bone." 



In more recent records, the search for greys becomes 

 less and less productive of result. Among the few may 

 be cited Chanticleer, foaled in 1843 (By Birdcatcher — 

 Whim, by Drone), and Strathconan. And, coming 

 down to our own da_\-, the only grey Thoroughbred sire 

 we have is Grey Leg, who derives his colour from a line 

 of ancestors v/hose predominating colour was grey — 

 namely, Pepper-and-Salt, Oxford ^Mixture, Scot Guard, 

 Grey Friar (by Hermit) and his son Friary; all of 

 them greys. 



The colour of Strathconan — to take one among the 

 examples given above — has been traced by the pains- 

 taking writer of a very able article on this subject t 

 through fourteen generations to the Alcock Arabian, 

 otherwise known as " Mr. Pelham's Grey x\rab," imported 

 early in the eighteenth century. In Strathconan's 

 "colour pedigree " the grey sire occurs five times, and 

 the grey dam nine times. Equally noteworthy is the 

 colour pedigree of the King Tom mare Euxine, who 

 also derived her grey colour, through sire or dam, from 

 the same original source — the Alcock Arabian or " Mr. 

 Pelham's Grey Arab." 



These examples bear out my own fifty years of 

 experience and that of other breeders, which establishes 



* Sharkey's Irish Racing Calendar. 

 + Baily's Magar:inc, March, 1905. 



