The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-04

xa- sissopesress into Canada. while Load
stare seemed 10 have vanished sraekiess
after his racing campaign so mtea .or
gray III the male line In the female Arle
ire gray mares have played more -
s..-tfve hand Descendants OF Galapade.
Ennrsts o. Blue. Earless Fanny Wright
ard Miller's Damssl are still holding their
our. though bearing darker color
Gaiopade whose color came from her
great granGsire. Nambrsno. was respou-
Ssnle for Reel who established the War
uance family. Fanny Wright Is respon-
sshts for a strong combination Of gray in
Tnsn4ctor BIS pedigree. through the fe-
male lfne of his dam. Coiossa. whose
grandson was the gray mare Eleanor
Marr-avs a daughter Of Fanny Wright,
whose sire and dam were both gTays.
The color in this ease ras apparently
died out with Eleanor MarSraye- lag
r,ss a daughter of Glencoe and a mare
nv Grey Eagle. was the dam 81 the grays
Mary Clark. Gray Planet. Steel Eyes and
Lizzie Lucas. The fatter's daughter,
rerise. will live in turf history as the
dam Of Morello who could never De ac-
c,,s.d OF favoring the female line in color.
Lizzie Lucas was also responsible for he
gray horse. Cambyses. from when noth-
Ing has been head since he retired from
active operations. and the gray mare,
CEeola who YVES among the mares par-
chased for ". II. Vanderbilt from
Pierre Lorillard's string. Mlier's pamsei,
q gray mare by the gray horse Messsr-
ger was the dam Of American Eclipse.
chestnut. who failed 70 perpetuate The
color of his dam The most persistent
line of gray today is found in Adele. the
dam Of the two grays, Adelbert and Bel
mar Adele's dam was by the gray
horse. Lightning.
That the gradual extinction of the gray
color in ,aoroeghbreds is not entirely
due TO the lack OF support received by
horses of that color in the past Is proven
by the fact that mares Of the same color
have been as highly priced as matroas OF
more fashionable compilations. To get
al the root Of the business, all thorough
breds today descend in the male line
from Eclipse, Herod and Mateham,
through certain prescribed lines. Eclipse
was chestnut. while Herod and Hat
cham were both bays, nor were any or
their representatives. through whom
their names are being perpetuated. gray.
Again, all results of breeding show that
the weaker color has 10 stand on one
side, This is shown in dogs, as in
stanced in fox terriers. where the sire
and dam of one of the principal pillars
were both tan marked in head yet the
son threw back 10 an ancestor with a
black and tan marked head. and the lat
ter color, with black predominatiDg. has
become a distinctive feature OF the fam
lily.
In collies, sable became the most fash
ionable color some fifteen or twenty
years ago. A dog named Charlemagne
appeared on the scene. and now. through
his sons and daughters. his blood is the
most priced, He was a sable, by
black. white and tan dog, and try as
much as they can. traders are confronted
in almost every litter with black. white
and tan puppies. In breeding ferrets it
is the same thing. Mate white female
with a polecat, or brown coiored dog fer
ret, and a large proportion. if not the en-
tire litter, will favor the sire's color.
With thoroughhreds. black, brown. bay
or chestnut is a stronger or more potent
color than gray, and since neither OF the
three taproots, nor their most potential
descendants, have favored the lighter
color. the odds have been overwhelming
~ against its asserting itself, even il
with a fair start it could have withstood
the onslaught of the more pronounced
coiors. That number of trotters are
gray is accounted for by the fact that
their taproot was the imported gray thor
oughbred Messenger.-New York Sun.