20 GENERAL GRANT'S ARABIAN STALLIONS, 



an imported Arabian, paternal, and more than thrice back upon the 

 maternal side. If his dam, Lady Surry, be discounted by some, they 

 must remember she was far above the old "Vintner mare" which has 

 figured so disparagingly in the English race-horse maternal foundation. 



Through Henry Clay's daughters, granddaughters, and great-grand- 

 daughters we enlist the immortal names of Andrew Jackson and 

 Henry Clay in dams. As the male since the first of man has given 

 the name and founded the family, what more appropriate start could 

 be made for a laudable and positively independent national horse than 

 by bringing the foundation blood in the Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay 

 daughters, to a union with the pure, primitive, unquestioned blood of 

 General Grant's Arabian stallions ? 



By so doing we should honor ourselves in our to be national horse, 

 through three of the greatest names our country has possessed. 



First comes that of General U. S. Grant, known and respected by 

 all the nations of the earth, also loved by over fifty millions of people 

 as no other great captain ever was. On the maternal side we have 

 the General and ex-President in Jackson, who knew no fear; and in 

 Henry Clay a statesman without a peer. It is a singular coincidence 

 that we should have these three immortal, national names attached to 

 representative horses direct from the primitive horse, and independent 

 of any other nation, from which and upon which to found and create 

 " The National Thoroughbred Trottin^-bred horse of America !" 

 General Grant, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay. 



The following transcript from English records, relating to the found- 

 ing and establishing of their thoroughbred running-horse, may be inter- 

 esting to many ; so I take the liberty of copying it from the London 

 " Field" of some time since. It will be noticed that from the early 

 attempts in England to establish a thoroughbred running-horse they had 

 great difficulty, owing to internal and external wars, with many troubles 

 recorded in history ; but that they depended entirely upon Arabian 

 blood the following transcript will show. The same was the case in 

 Russia for the creating of their thoroughbred Orloff trottingdiorse, 

 which records are very interesting and more authentic than are the 

 early English records. So, too, in France, in matter of their Percheron, 

 they are more definite. In Russia and in France the government gave 



