[26] ‘Quadrupédes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. p. 333. Dr. Canfield informs me that a breed with curly hair was formed by selection at Los Angeles in North America.
[27] See the evidence on this head in ‘Land and Water,’ May 2nd, 1868.
[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.