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GRAY TAIL HELD BADGE OF QUALITY A hunch of gray hairs at the root of the tail have beea observed in particular lines of blood for approaching -00 yean, and the possession is aaae ciated with merit, for it has pusse.l into an English turf proverb that one seldom sees a bad bone with a gray tail, and as a rule it i- ea-y to trai-e the Bearer from which it has In nu derived. — London Sporting Chronicle.