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one made, and it was a success, in his case. In twenty-four days 

 after the performance which made him a great name from one 

 end of the land to the other he died of rupture. As he was only 

 nine years old and as he was just beginning to be appreciated as 

 a stallion the breeders of the country sustained a great loss. Up 

 to this point in his history he had no reputation, had been little 

 patronized and left but *3W of his progeny to perpetuate his 

 name. 



LONG ISLAND BLACK. HAWK. This sou of Andrew Jackson 

 was foaled 1837 and his dam was the distinguished trotter Sally 

 Miller, by Tippoo Saib, son of Tippoo Saib by imported Messen- 

 ger. This mare was bred in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and 

 trotted as a three-year-old in 1828 on the Hunting Park Course, 

 Philadelphia. She was distinguished in her day, beating many 

 of the best, and was the first three-year-old trotter of which we 

 have any account. She was finally owned on Long Island, but I 

 have never been able to learn the name of her owner. Black 

 Hawk trotted some famous races on Long Island, the most noted 

 of which, perhaps, was his match with Jenny Lind in which he 

 was to pull a two hundred and fifty-pound wagon, and the mare 

 the usual weight. In this match he beat her in straight heats. 

 Time 2:40, 2:38, 2:43. In 1849 he beat Cassius M. Clay, time 

 2:41, 2:38, 2:41. This horse was owned for a time by Jonas 

 Hoover, of Germantown, Columbia County, New York, and was 

 there called Andrew Jackson Jr., or Young Andrew Jackson. 

 He made some seasons in Orange County, and died at Mont- 

 gomery in that county July, 1850. His progeny were not 

 numerous and but two of them from his own loins entered the 

 2:30 list. His son Jupiter put five in the 2:30 list; Andrew 

 Jackson Jr., two; Mohawk, three; Nonpareil, two; Plow Boy, 

 one; and VernoPs Black Hawk, one; to which we may add the 

 fact that this last named was the sire of the famous Iowa stal- 

 lion, Green's Bashaw. Although his life was not long and his 

 stud career was probably up to the average, it cannot be said that 

 he was a great progenitor of trotters. 



HENRY CLAY, the nominal head of the tribe that has taken 

 his name, was a black horse, foaled 1837, got by Andrew Jackson, 

 son of Young Bashaw; and his dam was Surrey, or Lady Surrey, 

 as she is sometimes called, a pacing mare that was brought from 

 Surrey, New Hampshire, to New York, and was converted to a 

 trotter, or possibly she may have been double-gaited from her 



