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 tendency to reproduce itself. A chestnut mare, put to 

 a stallion of the same colour, will almost certainly throw 

 a chestnut foal. To illustrate the truth of this, it may 

 be mentioned that during the fifteen years 1891 to igo6 

 considerably more than one hundred chestnut foals were 

 bred at the Elsenham stud by mating mares of this 

 colour with Danegelt and his son Royal Danegelt, both 

 of which were chestnuts. 



Professor C. J. Davies, writing in the Live - Stock 

 Journal Almanac, 1907, says he has never known a yellow 

 dun colt to be born when one parent was bay, brown or 

 chestnut and the other parent dun. He cites one case in 

 which a dun mare with dark points and dorsal stripe 

 threw three chestnut foals in succession to the chestnut 

 Hackney stallion Troubador. This seems to indicate 

 that chestnut is a more prepotent colour than dun. 



Bay and Brown Hackneys 



It is proposed to treat bay and brown as varieties 

 of the same colour. There are numbers of bays which 

 cannot possibly be mistaken for any other colour ; but, on 

 the other hand, there are many horses registered in the 

 Stud Books of the various breeds whose colour is so 

 indeterminate that they are described as "bay or brown." 



Of the bays little need be said. Bay retains its 

 popularity with horse owners, as we may see any day in 

 the London streets. Probably the great majority of 

 good, harness horses — single, pairs and teams — are ba}-s. 



Brown horses are described in one of two ways — 

 either as "brown" or "dark brown." Horses of the 

 former line are sometimes called " dark bays " ; this is a 

 mistake — the deeper colour is not bay at all, but brown. 

 A " dark brown " resembles the hue of old mahogany. 



