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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: implicitly trust, has examined for me a small dun Welch pony with three
short parallel stripes on each shoulder.
In the north-west part of India the Kattywar breed of horses is so
generally striped, that, as I hear from Colonel Poole, who examined the
breed for the Indian Government, a horse without stripes is not considered
as purely-bred. The spine is always striped; the legs are generally
barred; and the shoulder-stripe, which is sometimes double and sometimes
treble, is common; the side of the face, moreover, is sometimes striped.
The stripes are plainest in the foal; and sometimes quite disappear in old
horses. Colonel Poole has seen both gray and bay Kattywar horses striped
when first foaled. I have, also, reason to suspect, from information given
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