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own colour on Don Quixote, but it went no farther in 

 Melbourne's pedigree. 



Arbitrator and Barcaldine, both bays, are among the 

 best descendants of Melbourne. Horses of the Melbourne 

 blood are famed for size and power — most valuable in 

 these days, when so many horses are bred solely with an 

 eye to speed. 



It is to be noticed that there has not, within living 

 memory, been a bay Derby winner with four white legs. 

 The nearest approach is General Peel, who ran second to 

 Blair Athol in 1864, and won the Two Thousand ; and the 

 Earl, who was second. 



Black Thoroughbreds 



Black cannot be regarded as a common colour 

 among race-horses. When it does occur, its appear- 

 ance in a pedigree is noteworthy, first, for the 

 certainty with which it indicates descent from the 

 Byerly Turk, and, secondly, for the manner in which it 

 vanishes for a generation or two and reappears in an 

 individual horse, who may or may not bequeath it to his 

 progeny. 



The black Trumpator (1782) furnishes a case in point. 

 This horse derived his colour from the Byerly Turk, 

 whose name occurs so frequently on both sides of his 

 pedigree. There are no black horses among his imme- 

 diate ancestors, so far as the record shows (the colour of 

 his granddam, daughter of the brown Snap, is not given). 

 His sire was the chestnut Conductor, by the bay Matchem, 

 and his dam the brown Brunette, by the bay Squirrel, out 

 of the bay Dove. 



Trumpator got from the bay Young Giantess the 



