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Rokeby Friar (14827) begot Childwick Majestic (17254) and 

 Sergeant VI. (16389), all three of them browns; while 

 his black son Prince Harold (14228), out of the bay mare 

 Hale Lofty, begot the black Hendre Baronet (16714), who 

 begot the brown Hendre Spark (18795). 



The other brown "foundation grandsire," William the 

 Conqueror (2343), had three bay prize-winning sons 

 among his progeny, of whom Hitchin Conqueror (4458) 

 has been the most successful getter of prize-winners. 

 Hitchin Conqueror (4458) has seven prize-winning sons 

 at his credit, and only one brown, Coeur de Lion IV. 

 (11233), among them, the other six being bays. Coeur de 

 Lion IV. (11233) begat a brown prize-winning son in 

 Nailstone Coeur de Lion (16269), and Hitchin Conqueror's 

 colour appears also in his grandson Eckington Conqueror 

 (19579), by the bay Blaisdon Conqueror, and in his 

 grandson Rampton Conqueror (19044), by the bay 

 Blythwood Conqueror (14997). 



Browns have won their share of the Challenge Cups. 

 Staunton Hero (2918) won the Elsenham Cup in 1886, 

 Harold (3703) in 1887, Rokeby Harold (15313) in 1893, 

 1895 and 1896, and Girton Charmer (20515) in 1905. 



There would seem to be as little certainty in the 

 production, by a bay sire, of a bay as opposed to brown 

 son as there is in the production by a brown sire of a 

 brown as opposed to a bay son. Thus the bay Potentate 

 (12086) sired the brown Moor's Zealot (15731), who sired 

 the bay Dunsmore Jameson (17972). The bay Premier 

 (2646) sired the three bays, Calwich Heirloom (14547), 

 Pride of Blagdon (6272) and Salisbury (5324)- Only one 

 of these three sired a prize-winner — namely, Salisbury, 

 who got Statesman V. (i36i5)> a brown. The bay Prince 

 Wilham (3956) sired the brown Royal William II. (12207), 

 and the two prize-winning sons of the latter, Mintwell 



