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best have frankly conceded that he was not a 

 resolute race-horse. He had a good deal in him 

 of what Robert Bonner once, in the heat of con- 

 troversy, characterized as sawdust. Four trotters 

 came from his loins, the fastest of which was 

 Clayton, 2.19. Shawmut, 2.26, one of his sons, 

 is a speed-producing stallion ; but it is as a brood- 

 mare sire that Harry Clay stands out with promi- 

 nence. Flora, one of his daughters, bred to 

 Volunteer, produced St. Julien, who was a sen- 

 sational trotter in 1880, taking a record of 2.1 ij 

 at Hartford. Another daughter, Hattie Wood, 

 out of Grandmother by Terror, son of American 

 Eclipse, challenged national attention at Stony 

 Ford by producing Gazelle, 2.21, and three suc- 

 cessful sires, Idol, Louis Napoleon, and Victor 

 Bismarck. Hattie Hogan by Harry Clay out 

 of Nellie Sayre by Seely's American Star, pro- 

 duced Hogarth, who was the champion four-year- 

 old stallion of 1877, retiring with a record of 2.26. 

 Her daughters were producers, and Mr. Backman 

 valued her highly. The greatest of the daugh- 

 ters of Harry Clay in the Stony Ford collection 

 was Green Mountain Maid, whose fame will 

 endure as long as the trotting horse holds a 

 place in the esteem of mankind. I shall speak 



