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and two pacers, and eleven of his daughters produced twenty- 

 five trotters and three pacers. 



Several of the other sons of George M. Patchen left valuable 

 and fast trotting progeny, and among them I will name Godfrey 

 Patchen, with nine trotters to his credit and his descendants 

 breeding on; Henry B. Patchen, with seven to his credit; Seneca 

 Patchen, with sixteen trotters and one pacer to his credit, per- 

 haps more than he is honestly entitled to; Wild Wagoner, with 

 four to his credit; and Tom Patchen with three and his family 

 transmitting speed. 



In considering the founders of the Clay family, there are two 

 or three important facts that should be kept in view, bearing 

 upon the growth, or the decadence of the family. In a breeding 

 sense this appears to be the longest line of developed speed that 

 we have in any of our trotting families. While we know that 

 there were developed trotters and pacers many years before 

 Abdallah and Andrew Jackson were foaled, we are not able to 

 connect them in lines of descent, generation after generation. 

 As Andrew Jackson with his developed speed stands at the head 

 of this line, the question naturally arises, Where did he get his 

 ability to trot? The only answer we can give is, from the 

 daughter of Messenger that was the grandam of his sire, and 

 from the fast pacer, Charcoal Sal, that produced him. Even if 

 we accept the pedigree of Young Bashaw, with his Messenger 

 grandam, when we get to Andrew Jackson we are a long way 

 from the Messenger source of trotting speed; hence, we must 

 look to the pacing speed of his dam Charcoal Sal from Ohio as 

 the more probable source. 



Andrew Jackson was bred upon the converted pacer Surrey, 

 and produced Henry Clay, then Henry Clay was bred upon 

 Jersey Kate, of unknown blood, but a producer of trotting 

 speed, and produced Cassius M. Clay. Then Cassius M. Clay 

 was bred upon a mare "full of Messenger blood" and pro- 

 duced Strader's Cassius M. Clay the best of the Clay name 

 by the record. Cassius M. Clay (the original) was also bred on 

 "Dick Carman's mare" and produced the famous George M. 

 Patchen. This Carman mare was by a running-bred son of 

 Trustee. She was both a pacer and a trotter and her dam was a 

 natural pacer. George M. Patchen was bred on the Regan mare 

 and produced California Patchen. This mare was, practically, 

 of unknown breeding. California Patchen was bred on Whiskey 



