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Examination of the Shire Horse Stud Boolis show us 

 that grey is graduaUy disappearing in this breed as in 

 others. The first four volumes of the Stud Book, covering 

 the period 1800 to 1882, contain the names of 2,962 

 staUions, of which no fewer than 298, or more than ten 

 in every hundred, were greys. The volume (No. 27) 

 last published gives the names of 934 stallions, and of 

 these only ig, or about two in every hundred, are greys. 

 Hence we must conclude that grey is dying out more 

 rapidly among Shires than among Hackneys. 



It is not difficult to account for this. The very 

 interesting list of " winning strains " given in \'olume 27 

 of the Stud Book contains the names of iii winners of 

 prizes at the Society's Shows from 1884 to igo6 inclusive, 

 with those of their sires and grandsires. 



Sixteen grandsires are named, and one only — Lincoln- 

 shire Lad IL (1365) — is a grey. This horse was one of 

 the most celebrated sires in the Stud Book ; no fewer 

 than seven of his sons occur in the prize lists, and these 

 seven have sired among them, so far, twelve prize-winners. 

 It is a curious fact that of these seven sons only one — • 

 Paxton (4604) — was a grey, and he unfortunately, begat 

 no prize-winners. Paxton's dam was the chestnut mare 

 Pink. The other six are the brown Carbon (3523), the 

 bay Ercall Wynn (14620), the brown Harold (3703), the 

 roan Lincolnshire Boy (3188) and the ba}'s Potentate 

 (12086) and Pride of Hatfield (13103). Harold has been 

 by far the most successful of Lincolnshire Lad II. 's sons 

 as a getter of prize-winners, no fewer than seven of the 

 twelve grandsons being by this horse, and among these 

 twelve there is not a single grey. 



In regard to colour, therefore, Lincolnshire Lad II., 

 grand horse as he is acknowledged to have been, was not 

 prepotent. In the single case of Paxton, thrown by the 



