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GRAY AS A PERSISTING COLOR. Laxincton, K.v . March 18.- IK the nenrlj 809 horses In training at the Kentucky Awociathia rack only one is Ray in odor and thai hi I two-year-old tilly by the Derby winner, AHaa-a-Bnle, onl of the ..lie well-known race mare. Turtle Dore. Tiie nay color la horses on the race tracks has l*--cosse -« rare that this filly has attracted mock attention and Incidental! she caa step along i Ml It I- a legend among breeders of thoroughbreds that ererj graj horse had i Ray ancestor that i-. thai ray is never produced i v n combination ot other colors in tiii-ir progenitors. This is certainly true in the case ol this nil Her sire Is ■ chestnut, but her dam. Turtle Hove, is a pray mare, and the .may color has Bteadllj cropped out in Turtle Doees pedigree on 1m.Hi aide*. Turtle Hove i- by Teuton, a chestnut son of Ten Brneek, a bright Lay. but Teuton waa our ..f the graj mare. Miss Anstin, which was bj ih" Ray stallion. Lightning, onl of ltlue Bonnet, ■ Raj mare out of Grey 1annie. which was out of the gray mare. Arminda. The Color if Antiindas dam i- not «iven in the Stud Book and ahe was out of Saiiie Wright, whose color is likewise not given, hut in 177* Sallie Wrighl had a gray tilly by Pegasns. The color of Jenny Cam eron. Bailie Wrights dam. is not given, hut -In- was em of a gray mare by Traveler, and she iii turn was out of Jenny Cameron, whose dam was li-- l.elhioi. by Grej Cranihani. which, it may lie presumed, .-t bis color from some white or jrray Arabian, the founder of the family . In her dams sMe Turtle Dove v.. is the srray color equally direct and continuously. She was out of Melrose, a graj snare, whose dam was Bosalind, a -ia i, i. ue. The iiel dam was Fannie Wells, a graj ma!.-, ti ,• tiftii dam was the famous Keel. ■ gray mare, out of the uray mare. Gallopade, the founder of the noted Gallopade family in this country.
