CHAPTER SEVEN 



THE CLAY AND CLAY-ARABIAN 



HENRY CLAY was one of the greatest horses that 

 ever lived in this country. He was very fast, very 

 strong and as game as it was possible for a horse 

 to be. He founded a distinguished family, and 

 from that family Mr. Randolph Huntington, of 

 Fleetwood Farm, Oyster Bay, Long Island, by 

 crossing Clay mares with Arab and Barb stal- 

 lions, has created a type of as splendid horses as 

 ever touched the earth. And it is a great pity that 

 the United States Government has not long ago 

 taken over all of Mr. Huntington's horses, so as to 

 perpetuate this new and useful type into a great 

 national horse. On the sire's side Henry Clay was 

 a closely inbred Messenger. He was by Andrew 

 Jackson, the greatest trotting horse of his day, 

 and absolutely unbeaten during all his long ca- 

 reer. Andrew Jackson was by Young Bashaw, 



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