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seems to have died out completely among Thoroughbreds. 

 The mare Mrs. Ridgeway (1849), who threw to Voltigeur 

 Vedette, sire of Galopin, is described in Osborne's. H andbook 

 as a roan in some pedigrees and as a bay in others. 

 There is nothing in her ancestry on either side to 

 explain her exceptional colour, if it be correctly recorded 

 as roan. 



The blue roan colour is not common among horses 

 of any breed, but horsemen will agree that thej' have 

 never known a blue roan that was not a gfood one. 



