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Saltram's pedigree. From the last-named Sweeper 

 inherited his colour. 



Whenever we find a black horse we are certain to trace 

 its pedigree, on one side or the other — sometimes both — 

 to the Byerly Turk, generally through Trumpator. The 

 pedigrees of Voltaire (1826), Jet (1842), Peggy (1840), 

 Ambrose (1849), Delhi, also described as a chestnut (1838), 

 Echidna, also described as a brown, Ethelbert (1850), 

 and Morglay (1886) may be examined as examples. 



The offspring of the black sire or dam would seem to be 

 most usually a chestnut — a point which bears out Captain 

 Hayes' remark* that "black appears to be a much less 

 persistent hereditary colour than chestnut or ba\-, because, 

 in the produce of black dams and black sires, red pigment 

 has a strong tendency to manifest itself." 



Smolensko, the son of Sorcerer, mentioned above, is 

 the only black horse that has won the Derbj' (1813). Sir 

 Bevys, who won in 1879, was called a black; but there 

 was always a suspicion of chestnut or brown about him, 

 and he is described as a brown in the Racing Calendar ; 

 it is, however, only proper to mention that he traced his 

 descent on both sides from Trumpator. Probably the best 

 race-horse whose colour most nearly approached black 

 was the Flying Dutchman, a descendant of Sorcerer. 

 Very few of his stock were darker than brown ; his best 

 son. Dollar, was a dark brown. Dollar was sent to France, 

 where he proved a most valuable sire, his stock being 

 proverbial stayers. 



These cases of doubtful colour are worth citing as 

 evidence of the partial reproduction of the black coat in 

 some of the Byerly Turk's descendants. 



The same influence can be traced in the pedigrees of 



* Points of the Horse. 



