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ters, and knew all about his stallions by Henry Clay. 

 He tells me that several old men, who bred to Henry 

 Clay, report that if the fee was five dollars, as 

 Philips claimed it was when he bred to Henry Clay, 

 it certainly was when he was first there, because 

 when he was brought back eight or nine years later, 

 the fee was much larger. His colts were then show- 

 ing so much speed, everybody wanted to breed to 

 him. That was the reason he was brought back. 



The Board of Censors never took any action on the 

 information secured by Dr. Day. In other words 

 the breeding of Dolly Spanker is still recorded as un- 

 known.'* 



Katy Darling 



Katy Darling is a genuine unknown. No one 

 knows where she came from, who bred her, or who 

 owned her prior to the day in 1851 when Carl Young 

 turned her over to Lewis J. Sutton of Warwick, N. 

 Y., and told him if she recovered from her injury 

 and had a foal he could send him $50. The mare re- 

 covered and had a foal that under the names 

 of Edsall's Hambletonian and Alexander's Abdallah, 

 founded one of the greatest Hambletonian sub- 

 families. 



At present, and for that matter he always will be 

 referred to as the sire of Goldsmith Maid 2:14 and 

 the grand sire of the horse that got Cresceus 2:02l^, 

 two world's champions, as well as Almont, Belmont 

 and Thorndale. 



John H. Wallace made the only guess in regard 



