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IN my “Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse” (1905, pp. 441 ff.) I supported my other arguments to prove that the “blood” horse originated in Libya (North-West Africa), and that his primal colour was bay, by giving in one table the results of my examination of the colours of the winners of the Derby, the Oaks, and the St. Leger, and in another table the colours of the first three horses in each of these races in the three decades from 1870–99. Grey does not appear in them at all, and black only twice, whilst chestnut—which (like brown, black, and grey) I maintain is not an original colour, but due to crossing the bay Libyan horses and the ancient dun horses of the Upper European-Asiatic area—shows a steady decrease.
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RIDGEWAY, W. The Colours of Racehorses. Nature 104, 334 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104334a0
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