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Jeanette — was a black ; the other two being, again, bay 

 and brown. 



The black Hindlip Champion (9584) had two prize- 

 winning sons — the black Jeroboam (15172), out of the bay 

 Wildflower, and the bay Stonewall (15375), out of the bay 

 Wallflower, either of whom got a brown son. 



Examination of almost any Shire pedigree shows the 

 existence of one black ancestor or more. To take an 

 example at random, the descent of the bay Blythwood 

 Conqueror (14997) is recorded for ten generations. The 

 colour of his great-great-grandsire Ben (120) is not 

 known ; but Ben's great-grandsire was Blacklegs, a black, 

 and Blacklegs' great-grandsire was John Bull, otherwise 

 known as Fisher's Black Horse. Among the nine 

 ancestors whose colour is recorded, Blythwood Conqueror 

 has two blacks, the most distant ancestor to whom he can 

 be traced being one of them. 



Ro.\N AND Parti-coloured Shires 



Roan, more especially blue roan, is not at all an 

 uncommon colour in this breed. Referring again to the 

 list of prize-winners in \'ol. 27 of the Stud Book, we find 

 that one son of Lincolnshire Lad IL (1365) was a roan — 

 namely, Lincolnshire Boy (3188). This horse has one 

 prize-winning son in Coton Conqueror (1294S), a black, out 

 of the chestnut mare Bounce. Harold (3703) has, among 

 his prize-winning progeny, one blue roan, Horbling 

 Harold (15647), out of the blue roan mare Bluebell (4627). 



Piebalds are seldom seen among pedigree stock, but 

 the parti-coloured Shire is by no means uncommon in the 

 Fen country. Some fifty years ago Mr. Colvin, of 

 Pishobury, Sawbridgeworth, in Hertfordshire, possessed a 



