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a few good black horses on the Turf at the present time — 

 Black Arrow (also described as a brown), Slieve Gallion 

 (brown or black), and Prince William, for example. 



Piebald and Roan Thoroughbreds 



I ha\e not been able to discover a parti-coloured 

 horse such as piebald among those which have made 

 an}^ mark on the Turf ; and this is not remarkable, since 

 horses of such colours are quite the exception among 

 the Eastern breeds. " Roans, piebalds, duns and yellows," 

 saj-s Mr. Blunt, " are not found among the pure-bred 

 Arabians, though the last two are, occasionally, among 

 Barbs." 



This rule has its exceptions. Greys with large and 

 conspicuous bay or chestnut markings were among the 

 original importations of Eastern stock ; such were the 

 Oxford Bloody-shouldered Arabian, the Bloody Buttocks 

 Arabian and the Grey Bloody Buttocks (mare). The name 

 of D'Arcy's Black-legged Royal Mare suggests that she 

 was peculiarly coloured, as does that of the Lowther 

 White-legged Barb. Other unusual colours were repre- 

 sented among the original imported stock by the Halifax 

 Roan Barb and the Gower Dun Barb. There is, in the 

 Elsenham collection, a portrait of a " Bloody-shouldered 

 Arabian," painted by George Stubbs, R.A. This horse 

 could not have been the "Oxford Bloody-shouldered 

 Arabian" which is starred in Mr. Osborne's list as one 

 of the twenty-four imported in Queen Anne's reign 

 (1702-1714). Stubbs was born in 1724, and the horse 

 whose portrait he executed must have been a later 

 importation. 



As regards roan horses, the late Earl of Glasgow, 

 some fifty years ago, possessed some roans, but the colour 



