[28] Prof. Low, ‘Domesticated Animals,’ p. 546. With respect to the writer in India _see_ ‘India Sporting Review,’ vol. ii. p. 181. As Lawrence has remarked (‘The Horse,’ p. 9), “perhaps no instance has ever occurred of a three-part bred horse (_i.e._ a horse, one of whose grandparents was of impure blood) saving his distance in running two miles with thoroughbred racers.” Some few instances are on record of seven-eights racers having been successful. [29] Prof. Gervais (in his ‘Hist. Nat. Mamm.,’ tom. ii. p. 144) has collected many facts on this head. For instance Solomon (Kings, B. i. ch. x. v. 28) bought horses in Egypt at a high price. [30] ‘The Field,’ July 13th, 1861, p. 42. [31] E. Vernon Harcourt, ‘Sporting in Algeria,’ p. 26. [32] I state this from my own observations made during several years on the colours of horses. I have seen cream-coloured, light-dun and mouse-dun horses dappled, which I mention because it has been stated (Martin, ‘History of the Horse,’ p. 134) that duns are never dappled. Martin (p. 205) refers to dappled asses. In the ‘Farrier’ (London, 1828, pp. 453, 455) there are some good remarks on the dappling of horses; and likewise in Col. Hamilton Smith on ‘The Horse.’ [33] Some details are given in ‘The Farrier,’ 1828, pp. 452, 455. One of the smallest ponies I ever saw, of the colour of a mouse, had a conspicuous spinal stripe. A small Indian chestnut pony had the same stripe, as had a remarkably heavy chestnut cart-horse. Race-horses often have the spinal stripe. [34] I have received information, through the kindness of the Consul-General, Mr. J. R. Crowe, from Prof. Boeck, Rasck, and Esmarck, on the colours of the Norwegian ponies. _See also_ ‘The Field,’ 1861, p. 431. [35] Col. Hamilton Smith, ‘Nat. Lib.,’ vol. xii. p. 275. [36] Mr. G. Clark, in ‘Annal and Mag. of Nat. History,’ 2nd series, vol. ii. 1848, p. 363. Mr. Wallace informs me that he saw in Java a dun and clay-coloured horse with spinal and leg stripes. [37] _See also_ on this point, ‘The Field,’ July 27th, 1861, p. 91. [38] ‘The Field,’ 1861, pp. 431, 493, 545. [39] ‘Ueber die Eigenschaften,’ etc., 1828, s. 13, 14. [40] Von Nathusius, ‘Vorträge über Viehzucht,’ 1872, 135. [41] ‘Nat. Library,’ vol. xii. (1841), pp. 109, 156 to 163, 280, 281. Cream-colour, passing into Isabella (_i.e._ the colour of the dirty linen of Queen Isabella), seems to have been common in ancient times. _See also_ Pallas’s account of the wild horses of the East, who speaks of dun and brown as the prevalent colours. In the Icelandic sagas, which were committed to writing in the twelfth century, dun-coloured horses with a black spinal stripe are mentioned; _see_ Dasent’s translation, vol. i. p. 169.