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Jr.," thus leading to great confusion and oftentimes uncertainty 

 as to identity. 



CASSIUS M. CLAY JR. (NEAVE'S). This was a brown horse 

 foaled 1848, got by Cassius M. Clay; dam by Chancellor, son of 

 Mambrino; grandam by Engineer, sire of Lady Suffolk. He was 

 bred by Charles Mitchell, of Manhasset, Long Island, owned by 

 Joseph Godwin, New York; stood in Orange County, 1852, in 

 Dutchess, 1853, and was taken to Cincinnati that fall. He was 

 owned by Mr. Neave, made a few seasons, broke his leg in the 

 hands of Mr. McKelvy, and had to be destroyed. Mr. Godwin 

 represented this horse to me as very fast until four years old, 

 when by an accident he was thrown into the Harlem River when 

 hot and was stiff ever afterward. He put four of his get into 

 the 2:30 list, and four of his sons got ten trotters and one pacer. 

 His early death was esteemed a great loss, for he was better bred 

 than most of the other sons of his sire. 



CLAY PILOT, by Cassius M. Clay (Neave's), was out of a catch 

 filly, whose dam was the famous Kate, the grandam of Almont. 

 From the noted old trotting mare Belle of Wabash, whose his- 

 tory will be found in Chapter XXX. on the investigation of pedi- 

 grees, Clay Pilot got The Moor, himself a fast trotter and a suc- 

 cessful sire. He died at ten years old, leaving among others the 

 famous Beautiful Bells, 2:29^, that, mated with Electioneer, pro- 

 duced a remarkable family; and Sultan, 2:24, sire of the great 

 Stamboul, 2:07^, and of thirty-eight other performers, and of 

 thirteen producing sons and twenty producing daughters. The 

 Moor founded an excellent family. 



From a sister to Crabtree Bellfounder, by imported Bell- 

 founder, Neave's Cassius M. Clay got the black stallion Harry 

 Clay, 2:29, that was quite a reputable trotter in his day, and left 

 five standard performers, sixteen producing sons and twenty- 

 three producing daughters, among the latter the famous Green 

 Mountain Maid, the dam of Electioneer. 



CASSIUS M. CLAY JR. (STRADER'S). This was a handsome 

 brown horse, foaled 1852, by the original Cassius, and his dam was 

 a black mare by Abdallah, that passed through the hands of A. 

 Van Cortlandt and afterward became the property of Joseph 

 Godwin; grandam by Lawrence's Eclipse; great-grandam the 

 Charles Hadley mare by imported Messenger. This pedigree 

 has been questioned without assigning any reasons or facts, but 

 as it came to me circumstantially and from unquestionable sources:. 



