CHAPTER XXIV. 



THE CLAYS AND BASHAWS. 



The imported Barb, Grand Bashaw Young Bashaw, an inferior individual 

 His greatest son, Andrew Jackson His dam a trotter and pacer His his- 

 tory His noted son, Kemble Jackson Long Island Black Hawk Henry 

 Clay, founder of the Clay family Cassius M. Clay The various horses 

 named Cassius M. Clay George M. Patchen His great turf career 

 George M. Patchen Jr. Harry Clay The Moor, and his son Sultan's 

 family. 



THIS family is no longer prominent in trotting annals and its 

 blood has been practically absorbed by other strains that have 

 proved themselves more potent in transmitting and more uniform 

 and more speedy in performing. The name "Bashaw Family" 

 is a misnomer and it should never have been used, but as it has 

 represented, for many years, the oldest line of developed speed, it 

 seems a necessity to recognize it here. A branch of this family, 

 designated as "The Clay Family" has perpetuated itself in some 

 strength and will be considered in this chapter. 



GBAND BASHAW, the horse that gave this family its name, was 

 imported from Tripoli by Richard B. Jones, who was the American 

 consul at that port. Mr. Morgan was associated with him, and they 

 imported at the same time two other Barbs, Grand Sultan and 

 Saladin. Grand Bashaw was kept in Lower Merion, Montgomery 

 County, Pennsylvania, several years; Grand Sultan was kept in 

 New Salem, New Jersey, for a time, and Saladin was taken to 

 North Carolina and afterward died in Georgia. From these 

 three horses nothing has been left to the horse history of the 

 country but one single attenuated line. Grand Bashaw was a 

 black horse, fourteen hands and an inch high, with a star and a 

 snip on his nose. He was kept all his life in the vicinity of 

 Philadelphia, and died at Newtown, Pennsylvania, 1845. 



YOUXG BASHAW was a grey horse, about fifteen and one-quarter 

 hands high, and is the only descendant of Grand Bashaw through 

 which we can trace to that horse. He was foaled 1822 and was 



