190 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



mention is made of two covering jacks, three 

 young ones, ten she asses, forty-two working 

 mules, and fifteen younger ones. It was a much 

 later period, however, before mules were exten- 

 sively bred in the United States. With the excep- 

 tion of Royal Gift, it is likely that the jacks 

 brought from Europe were rather inferior. But in 

 1832, Henry Clay imported two pure-blood Cata- 

 lan asses, a jack and a jenny. They were landed 

 in Maryland, and there the jenny had a foal. 

 This foal was called Warrior. This jack was fif- 

 teen hands high, and he became a great ass pro- 

 genitor in Kentucky. The jennies there at that 

 time were not well bred, but mongrels, mostly a 

 light shade of blue, with gray, buff and grizzly 

 hair, nearly as stiff as hog bristles, generally with 

 a colored stripe across the shoulders and down the 

 back, ewe-necked, flat in the rib, low carriage, 

 and heavy headed, entirely destitute of any good 

 quality except hardihood and ability to get a liv- 

 ing where any other animal, save a goat, would 

 have starved to death. With such jennies began 

 the first effort to improve the race in Kentucky, 

 and they flocked to Warrior in droves. He seem- 



