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three-mile heats in which he beat Americus showed. The 

 wagons and drivers weighed 350 Ibs. He is not to he con- 

 founded with the tribe of Black Hawks that left the trot- 

 ing-place up in Vermont, and flew all over the Western 

 country, some years ago. This was a horse of another 

 stamp altogether. I have said that I did not think the 

 Bashaws quite equal to the Messenger line for natural trot- 

 ting. It is, however, hard to separate them, as the dam of 

 Young Bashaw's dam was a Messenger mare j and the lines 

 have been otherwise closely mingled. George Woodruff is 

 of opinion that Black Bashaw, who was the sire of Awful, 

 Lantern, &c., would have got as many fast trotters as any 

 horse that ever lived if he had had good mares. He stood 

 at ten dollars, and hardly ever received a good mare. After- 

 wards, his fee was raised to twenty dollars ; but he still had 

 common mares. The Monmouth-Eclipse mare, that was the 

 dam of Lightning, was an exception. Awful was a capital 

 trotter perhaps the best of the Black Bashaws. George 

 Woodruff drove him in 2m. 25s. over Point-Breeze Park, in 

 a trial, before he brought him on here. 



It is said that Henry Clay, a son of Andrew Jackson, is 

 still living in this State. He got Cassius M. Clay, who 

 was the sire of George M. Patchen. The dam of this last 

 famous trotter was said to have been got by a son of im- 

 ported Trustee. Trustee got but few trotters. The chest- 

 nut horse, so-called, who went twenty miles in harness, was 

 by far the best of the few he got ; and I believe that his 

 dam, Fanny Pullen, put the trotting action into him. 

 There was another got by imported Trustee, called Trus- 

 tee, Jr., who trotted ten miles well. There have been other 

 bays who got a few very good trotting-horses about here ; 

 but, as their produce was not trained early, it is unnecessary 

 to mention them in this connection. And there have been 

 some whose reputed pedigrees were too uncertain to be 

 relied on. Prince, the Buffalo horse, burnt last fall in 

 Massachusetts, was one that nobody can tell any thing 



