to one sire of colour other than grey and not to another. 

 The mare Whim furnishes an instance of this ; herself 

 a grey, the daughter of a remarkably prepotent grey sire, 

 Drone, she threw grey foals to the chestnut Birdcatcher 

 and to no other horse. 



There is, in France, a family of grey Thoroughbreds 

 which has been established in that country since about 

 the year 1881, when Baron Schickler purchased Gem of 

 Gems for his French stud. This mare was a grey, got 

 by Strathconan out of Pointsettia ; she was put by her 

 purchaser to the chestnut son of Thormanby, Atlantic, 

 who won the Two Thousand Guineas in 1874. Baron 

 Schickler also bought him to take to France. 



The produce of Atlantic and Gem of Gems was the 

 grey Le Sancy. Le Sancy proved to be one of the 

 best race-horses ever bred in France ; and his success 

 at the stud when his racing career was finished has 

 not been less remarkable. He got a large number of 

 horses of the highest class, all greys ; the two whose 

 names are perhaps best known in this country are Palmiste, 

 who won the French Derby of 1897, and would m all 

 human probability have won also the Grand Prix had he 

 not broken down at the last moment ; and Semendria, who 

 won the French Oaks and Grand Prix de Paris in the 

 Exhibition year (1900). 



Palmiste, in his turn, was sent to the stud, and has 

 proved the prepotency of his family colour by getting 

 many grey horses of the best class. ' Le Sancy is the sire 

 of several other successful race-horses, nearly all of which 

 are greys. Holocauste, who broke down in the Derby 

 of i8gg, was one of the fastest horses on the Turf. 



It is simply an illustration of the adage that "nothing 

 succeeds like success." Grey horses have succeeded on 

 the French Turf; therefore they are sent to the stud to 



