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chestnut Pink, he bestowed his colour ; and Paxton, as 

 already said, got no prize-winners. 



Lincolnshire Lad IL did not come of grey stock, so 

 far as his ancestry can be traced. His sire, Lincolnshire 

 Lad (iig6), was a brown bay, and Lincolnshire Lad's 

 sire was Lincoln (1345), a bay horse. We discover 

 the source of Lincolnshire Lad IL's colour on his dam's 

 side ; his dam. Madam, an unregistered mare, was by the 

 grey Matchless (1506). 



The absence of grey stallions among the prize-winners 

 at the Society's shows sufficiently accounts for the rapidly 

 increasing rarity of pedigree shires of this colour. There 

 is not one grey horse among the one hundred and eleven 

 prize-winners in the list. 



Chestnut Shire Horses 



Chestnut is not a very common colour among Shires — 

 a somewhat curious thing when we remember how 

 closely this hue is allied to the black which was once a 

 distinguishing characteristic of a famous breed. Reference 

 will be made to black horses in another chapter. Glancing 

 over our list of sixteen " foundation grandsires," we do not 

 find a chestnut among them. Among their sons there is 

 only one — namely, Hitchin Duke (9586), by the bay 

 Bar None (2388). The dam of Hitchin Duke was the 

 chestnut mare Brock (2183). The only one of Hitchin 

 Duke's sons to gain a place in the prize lists was Wyn 

 Hitchin Duke (14782), a bay horse. 



Looking further back in the Stud Book, we find a 

 chestnut. Honest Tom (1062), among the ancestors of 

 Blythwood Conqueror (14997); but I observe that the 

 revised edition of the volume which contains this horse's 

 name gives it as " Honest Tom " without the number. 



