2 8 "GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA," "ISLAM," 



Clayrabia is an iron-gray without white. She was by Linden from 

 Mag Wadsworth by Colonel Wadsworth by Henry Clay, from Colonel's 

 own daughter. Clayrabia is fifteen hands and her dam fourteen and 

 one-half hands high. Clayrabia was foaled July 14, 1881, and is much 

 larger than her dam. 



Claybeale Grant is a chestnut, with stripe in the face and three white 

 legs, the nigh one forward and two behind. She was by General Beale, 

 already mentioned and described ; she is also his first get. The dam 

 of Claybeale Grant is Nell Andrews, who was also the dam of Islam 

 by Linden, and Islam was her virgin foal. Claybeale is the last of three 

 foals from Nell, and is the largest at same age of the three ; and while 

 all three were perfect and beautiful, this daughter of General Beale is 

 the handsomest foal I have ever seen, except General Beale by Leopard, 

 from Mary Sheppard. 



It has been a challenging question to me since the spring of 18S0, 

 why I bred to General Grant's Arabians ? 



Now having told the reader what I got, and a little of the dams, 

 I will try to explain my reasons ; also what governed me in the selec- 

 tion of dams tor the purpose. It was by no means an impulsive move 

 upon my part, but the result of long-considered, intelligent reasoning. 



Had I anticipated the abusive condemnation I was to draw upon 

 myself, and the privations to be suffered, resulting even in financial em- 

 barrassment in the end, through a necessary holding of the stock for 

 the purpose of just estimation of individual values before reproduc- 

 tion, — in fact, a thorough knowledge of the blood instinct, with con- 

 stitutional fitness for reproduction in each individual case, — added to 

 which was to be incessant physical and mental application, without one 

 single day of rest, with now and then sporting-paper attacks upon an 

 exceedingly sensitive nature, I hardly think my courage would have 

 been equal to the undertaking ; nor would it have been except through 

 faith. 



God has so ordered things that it is not always men of large means 

 who accomplish great results through discoveries, rediscoveries, or in- 

 ventions ; nor are improvements in already adapted and adopted dis- 

 coveries and inventions made by such men ; but their wealth does 

 become the means through which they become recognized. 



Since the days of King Solomon there is no record of men of 

 wealth having become direct instruments in important scientific or 

 mechanical progress, because they could see no immediate money re- 

 turns. There are, however, occasional instances of men of grand 



