for his individual horse. My contention has been for the blood, pro bono publico ; 

 and even in that particular I was misjudged by friends, who would ask me 'if it was 

 glory' I was after. Far from it. 



"In the matter of Golddust : The war broke out, and his possibilities for Ken- 

 tucky and the country at large were cut short. I remember a lot of horses and mares 

 by Golddust which Mr. Dorsey sent on to Long Island at the beginning of the war. 

 They were in a large barn near John I. Sneidicker's place, near the old Union track. 

 I examined them many times, and will say that today such good horses are rare. After 

 the war, attempts to establish Golddusts were frustrated from two causes ; first was 

 owing to the multitude of coarse horses, more fashionable in the name, and second 

 was the mistaken idea of improving the blood of Golddust through infusion of the 

 blood of the rigid running horse with its instinct. Had Mr. Dorsey selected inbred 

 Morgan and high type Clay mares for his horse he would by this time have created a 

 •national coach, road and trotting horse' without equal in the world. The same 

 could have been accomplished with Messenger, or with Young Bashaw or Andrew 

 Jackson or Henry Clay. The opportunities for a 'national horse' have presented 

 themselves, but have not been embraced because of want of inteUigent application 

 to the object upon the part of gentlemen of means. General William T. Withers, of 

 Kentucky, is now working towards such a base. I know him to be creating a supe- 

 rior maternal foundation, but whether he will introduce the right form of blood in 

 the male remains to be seen. 



"Naturally, he will feel pride in establishing his breed through his Almont; and 

 while Almont did possess largely of Arabian blood through Andrew Jackson and 

 Pilot, and the maternal foundation will be solid through 'Clay' and Keene Richards' 

 Arab mares, his results would be more uniform and every way more satisfactory, 

 were he to make the king of his harem a direct descendant of a high-type Arabian 

 stallion, through a Morgan, a Jackson or a Clay mare; but small mistakes by the in- 

 dividual have disappointed more than one Napoleonic attempt." 



From the writings of Mr. Randolph Huntington, who is the best authority 

 on American Clay and Arabian breeding, we glean the following : 



"The following shows the influence of Arab blood in Henry Clay and the dams 

 of Clay Pilot, Clay and Pilot were both Arab and Barb bred horses, better in blood 

 than the Orloff. Clay Pilot and Henry Clay were half-brothers by Neave's Clay, 

 the first and best bred son of Cassius M. Clay, by Henry Clay, the Americo-Arab. 

 Strader's C. M. Clay, Jr., was an inferior bred half-brother to Neave's C. M. Clay, Jr., 

 by C. M. Clay, because of the dam ; and Harry Clay was inferior to Clay Pilot from 

 same reasons ; and yet all were close bred to Henry Clay. 



"Harry Clay got the dam of Electioneer, Clay Pilot got the Moor (a small black 

 horse). Minnehaha was a daughter of Nettie Clay by Strader's Clay, the half-brother 

 to Neave's Clay. In Minnehaha's paternal grandams we find a daughter of the 

 imported Arab Stamboul, the Arabian being the direct blood cause for the Clay ex- 

 cellence. 



"Minnehaha, mated with the Moor (by Clay Pilot), produces *Beautiful Bells, 

 a mare interbred to the one same Clay horse, Cassius M. Clay, by Henry Clay, and 

 reinforced by its blood cause, the Arab, from imported Stamboul. 



"Beautiful Bells, bred to Electioneer, whose dam was her cousin through Neave's 

 Clay, produces Hinda Rose, the first three-year-old to beat 2 :2o, and the first yearling 

 to trot in 2 136^, which fiUy was foUowed by eleven others so bred, among which 

 were St. Bel Chimes, BeU Boy, Palo Alto BeU, Bellflower and BeU Bird, to trot as a 

 yearling in 2 :26i^. 



"When, however, the mare was bred away from her intensified Clay-Arab blood 



*Concedcd to be the greatest of all of America's trotting horse brood mares. 



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