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raise the average of Australian horses, comes of the 

 Melbourne strain. All the horses named were bay or 

 brown ; a chestnut of true Melbourne descent is seldom 

 found. 



Orville, Tramp, Blacklock, Touchstone (brown) and 

 Melbourne all come from the Godolphin Arabian ; and the 

 Darley Arabian's name occurs frequently in the pedigrees 

 of Orville and Touchstone. Melbourne, who was " held 

 in great regard by breeders as having more of the blood 

 of the Godolphin Arabian in his veins than any horse 

 of his time bar Harkaway," * furnishes an example of the 

 uncertainty with which colour is reproduced. His sire, 

 Humphrey Clinker, was a bay. Humphrey Clinker's sire, 

 Comus, was a chestnut, and his dam, Clinkerina, was a 

 brown. Comus was by the black Sorcerer, out of the 

 bay Houghton Lass ; and Clinkerina was by the brown 

 Clinker, out of the bay Pewet. Among Melbourne's 

 eight paternal great-great-grandparents was one black 

 (Trumpator) ; two bays. Young Giantess and Tandem ; a 

 brown, Sir Peter Teazle (twice) ; two chestnuts, Hyall 

 andAlexina; and one undescribed, Termagant. Melbourne's 

 dam (unnamed) was a bay by the bay Cervantes, out of a 

 bay mare (unnamed). Cervantes was by the chestnut 

 Don Quixote, out of the brown Evelina ; and the bay dam 

 was by the bay Golumpus, out of a brown mare (un- 

 named). Among Melbourne's eight maternal great-great- 

 grandparerits was one chestnut. Eclipse ; two un- 

 scribed mares, Grecian Princess and Termagant ; 

 four bays. Highflyer, Gohanna, Catherine and Sister to 

 Zodiac ; and one brown, Paynator. Thus, among his 

 sixteen great-great-grandparents, are six bays to three 

 browns (one occurring twice). Eclipse bestowed his 



* Osborne. 



