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black Sorcerer. Two of Sorcerer's best sons, Soothsayer * 

 (out of the chestnut Goldenlocks) and Comus (out of the 

 bay Houghton Lass), were chestnuts. Smolensko, another 

 son, was a black, thus repeating the colour in the third 

 generation. Trumpator got the bay Penelope out of the 

 bay Prunella; and Penelope's brown son Whalebone 

 (1807) begat the black Camel. Whalebone also got the 

 black Sir Hercules (1826) ; but Sir Hercules' descendants 

 in the male line, down to Stockwell and Rataplan, were 

 chestnuts. Sir Hercules also got the black Clarinda 

 (1834) out of Mustard, and Clarinda threw the black 

 Nightingale (1857) to Mountain Deer. Trumpator's name 

 also occurs in Clarinda's pedigree on the dam's side. 



We find the colour of the Byerly Turk in his 

 descendant Black Susan (1762), and this is not surprising, 

 as the great sire's name appears on both sides of the 

 pedigree of the brown Snap (1750), the sire of Black 

 Susan. It is very curious to observe how the colour 

 reappears after lying dormant through several generations. 

 A noteworthy case is that of the black Curfew (1887), 

 by Barcaldine-Carillon. There is not a black horse or 

 mare in his pedigree till we reach the generation fifth 

 above himself; then we find the Byerly Turk colour in 

 Curfew's ancestors. Camel and Sir Hercules, on both 

 sides. 



Turning back, for a moment, to a comparatively un- 

 known horse, we find Sweeper, by Saltram, advertised in 

 the Racing Calendar of 1801 as " a most beautiful black 

 horse, near 15 hands and a half, winner of many races." 

 His pedigree follows. The Darley Arabian, Godolphin 

 Arabian, and Byerly Turk blood is very strong in 



* Soothsayer was sold to go to Russia before his worth as a stallion 

 had been discovered in this country. His stock proved very successful on 

 the Russian Turf. 



