Colors In Horses

lt is a curious fact, that while the various shades of grey, from steel grey to pure white, and the grey that turns white after seven years old, are the most common colors among Arabs and other Oriental horses of the Arab class, there is not a single grey horse of any shade of any reputation on the English turf, and lias not been f or more than thirty years. Bay and chestnuts are the prevailing colors of English thoroughbreds. In the Arab studs bred in Wurtemberg. in Russia, and in Hungary, which were exhibited at the Vienna and Paris Horse shows, grey - and particularly flea-bitten grey - was the prevailing color. Brown is also a common color amongst the Syrian Arabs. Chestnut is the favorite Arab color. On the English turf, bay, chestnut, and brown are the colors of the more popular sires of modern times, and is somethmg like that order in proportion of numbers. In breeding superior carriage horses or any riding horse, a good bay, with black legs, is the best selling color. Greys are out of fashion, and diüicult to Bell. Brown, with tan muzzle, is the most fashionable harness color. Dark chestnut is a good color in every respect, but niany purchasers object to a light chestnut; yellow bays with mealy legs are still worse to sell. It is a curious fact that thoroughbred sires, unlike pedigree bulls, ran rarely bo depended on to produce their own colors in their stock. A chestnut sire will get bays and browns as well as his own colers. Roans are more esteemed in trotting airea, but can least of all be depended on for reproducing their own colors, which are in fact i mixture of several colors. The only roans on the turf of any repute were all of the Physalis blood, and in the hands of the late Lord Glasgow. ïhey varied from a red or strawberry roan (the best of all that class of colors) to a deep blue roan, the last a bad color to sell in half breeds, and requiring to pass muster, extraordinary action. The disfavor in which this color is now held was shown on the dispersión of Lord Glasgow's stud, when a purchaser could not be f ound for one of flve roan stallions, even at 50 gs. A hunter of any color with a character will find purchasers, but hacks of any staring color hang on hand. On Uie continent, on the contrary, where riding horses are chiefly required as chargers, or for parade purposes, grey is the favorite color. You may see more grey horses of all kinds in Paris than in all England. The cart-horses are nearly all a grey-white. The l'ercherons were originally bay, but as the postmasters preferred grey they became grey. If, by any fluke, a grey horse were to win the Derby or the St. Leger, we should see a number of grey race-horses, and consequently of