Belgrade Turk Mare

Belgrade Turk Mare (f Belgrade Turk)
     Bay Bolton Mare (f Bay Bolton)
          Bartlet's Childers Mare (f Bartlet's Childers)
               Flora (b f 1749c Regulus)
                    Florella (b f 1760 Godolphin Colt)
                    |    Flounce (b f 1767 Sampson)
                    |         Augustus (br c 1784 Tantrum)
                    |         Sampson* (b c 1777 Tantrum)
                    Harriet (b f 1769 Matchem)
                         Creeper* (b c 1786 Tandem)
                         Diomed Mare (b f 1793 Diomed)
                         |    Rosabella (b f 1803 Whiskey)
                         |         Rhoda (b f 1813 Asparagus) 1G
                         Miss Green (b f 1787 Highflyer)
                         |    Canary (b f 1797 Coriander)
                         |         Canary Bird (b f 1806 Sorcerer)
                         |              Pioneer Mare (ch f 1820 Pioneer)
                         |              |    Echo (b f 1828 Emilius) ..... 22-b
                         |              |         Venus (b f 1840 Sir Hercules)
                         |              |              Mrs Quickly (b f 1857 Longbow) ..... 22-c
                         |              Quadrille (b f 1815 Selim)
                         |              |    Constance (b f 1835 Partisan)
                         |              |         Catherine Hayes (br f 1850 Lanercost) O
                         |              |              Albani (b f 1870 Thormanby)
                         |              |                   Folle Avoine (br f 1875 Favonius)
                         |              |                        Fripon (b c 1883 Consul)
                         |              |              Belladrum (br c 1866 Stockwell)
                         |              |              Cantata (b f 1862 Wild Dayrell)
                         |              |                   Hymenaeus (b c 1869 Lord Clifden)
                         |              |    Cotillon (b f 1831 Partisan)
                         |              |         Laelia (gr f 1842 Sheet Anchor)
                         |              |              Caprice (gr f 1847 Coronation)
                         |              |                   Tawney (br f 1859 Ivan)
                         |              |                        Madeline (b f 1870 Plum Pudding)
                         |              |                             Hollyleaf (b f 1879 Hollywood)
                         |              |                                  Stella (br f 1890 Necromancer) ..... 22-a
                         |              |                        Sienna (b f 1880 Umpire)
                         |              |                             Tosca (b f 1893 Kendal)
                         |              |                                  Gherarda (br f 1903 Desmond)
                         |              |                                       Nesta (br f 1909 Fariman)
                         |              |                                            Little Flutter (br f 1925 Happy Warrior or Flying Orb)
                         |              |                                                 Straight Sequence (ch f 1929 Stratford)
                         |              |                                                      Khosro (b c 1938 Sir Cosmo)
                         |              |                                                      Petrovna (ch f 1942 Blue Peter)
                         |              |                                                           Philomela (ch f 1954 Tudor Minstrel)
                         |              |                                                                Procne (b f 1969 Acroterion)
                         |              |                                                                     Flying Paster (b c 1976 Gummo)
                         |              |                                                      Poker Chip (ch f 1937 The Recorder)
                         |              |                                                           Quarterdeck (b f 1947 Nearco)
                         |              |                                                                Alcazar (ch f 1957 Alycidon)
                         |              |                                                                     Petingo (b c 1965 Petition)
                         |              |                                                           Queenpot (ch f 1945 Big Game) 1G
                         |              |                                                                Jellatina (b f 1966 Fortino)
                         |              |                                                                     Northjet (ch c 1977 Northfields)
                         |              |                                                           Wat Tyler (ch c 1946 Watling Street)
                         |              |    Katherine (ch f 1821 Soothsayer)
                         |              |         Tarantella (ch f 1830 Tramp) 1G
                         |              |         Taurus (ch c 1826 Phantom or Morisco)
                         |              |         Viator (gr c 1831 Stumps)
                         |              |    Pauline (b f 1826 Moses)
                         |              |         Gladiator (ch c 1833 Partisan)
                         |              Varennes (b f 1818 Selim)
                         |                   Brocard (b f 1824 Whalebone)
                         |                        Corumba (b f 1832 Filho da Puta)
                         |                             Lady Ishmael (b f 1836 Ishmael)
                         |                                  Hartneitstein (b c 1846 Sir Hercules)
                         |                             Zuleika (br f 1843 Muley Moloch)
                         |                                  Ladylike (br f 1858 Newminster)
                         |                                       Grand Duchess (b f 1871 Lozenge) ..... 22-d
                         |                                       Rosebery (b c 1872 Speculum)
                         |    Greyhound* (b c 1794 Sweetbriar)
                         Mrs Jordan (b f 1784 Highflyer)
                              Comedy (b f 1804 Beningbrough)
                                   Charming Molly (b f 1813 Rubens)
                                        Shakespeare* (br c 1823 Smolensko)

Flora

"Flora, Bred by Sir W Strickland, in 1749 or 50" [GSB1:86].

Laelia

"1842 Laelia gr. f." [GSB5:32].
"It will be noted that Laelia is shown as a grey mare, although she is by a brown horse out of a bay mare. Sheet Anchor, her sire, is described in the reference books as a dark brown, and there can be little doubt that her dam, Cotillon, was a bay. Cotillon, who started favourite for the Oaks, was a well-known race mare, and had she been a grey this fact would undoubtedly have been established. There are no grey horses among her ancestors. Furthermore, Cotillon, covered by Camel (another dark brown horse), was sold to Germany after producing Laelia, and any discrepancy in her description would have been noticed on her arrival at the Harzburg Stud. The following year (1843), Cotillon produced a roan foal. The evidence would seem irrefutably to show that after ostensible matings with Sheet Anchor and Camel in 1841 and 1842 respectively, Cotillon had been served by a grey stallion, who was responsible for her foals of the following years. It has not been possible hitherto to establish the identity of this grey horse" [Family Tables of Racehorses].

On the other hand, it is also possible that the matings of Cotillon occurred exactly as reported to the stud book and rather that Cotillon was not the dam of Laelia. It is also possible that Laelia was a sabino, a relatively modern colour distinction, rather than a grey.

An example of a roan hunter by James Seymour (c1702-1752) illustrates that "roan" did not always mean "grey". Colour theorists suggest that the roan gene has never been present in the thoroughbred, thus, when the term "roan" is used to describe a coat colour it is generally that assumed that the colour was actually grey or sabino/rabicano. The latter are widely distributed throughout the breed.