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Censors. But more recent discoveries made by Mr. 

 Ray, have raised a conflict that is irrepressible, for 

 dates are involved and insisted upon that make the 

 pedigree impossible. In his original statement Mr. 

 Ray says that Henry Clay made the season of 1846 

 at Bristol, ''when he became the property of Kent & 

 Bailey. He was kept in that town for some years." 

 Up to this point there is no contradiction. But in 

 the past two or three years Mr. Ray believes he has 

 secured additional information, and this places Cap- 

 tain Lewis in a very unenviable position. The whole 

 point of Clark Philips' evidence is that he bred his 

 mare ''Old Telegraph" to Henry Clay when that 

 horse was owned by Bailey Brothers, of Bristol, and 

 I supposed they were the successors of Kent & Bailey 

 of an earlier date. Now, as Mr. Ray told us in his 

 first investigation that Henry Clay passed into the 

 hands of Kent & Bailey in 1847, and as he tells us 

 later that he did not pass into their hands 'till nine 

 or ten years after that date and then fails to fix 

 the precise year, it must be conceded by all that his 

 information is not wholly satisfactory. The best 

 and final evidence is the service book of the horse. 

 My best judgment of the whole matter is that Mr. 

 Ray's later information is probably correct." This 

 second report was accepted by the Board of Censors 

 and the pedigree of Dolly Spanker was declared 

 unknown. 



In 1912 Dr. J. W. Day, an enthusiastic supporter 

 of the Clay family and who had a stock farm at 

 Waterloo, N. Y., for over twenty-five years, appeared 



