" CLAYRABIA," AND - CLAYBEALE GRANT." 43 



however, must be sustained by always rich mother-earth, for renewed 

 vitality. God's laws are perfect ; man cannot improve upon them. 

 Atavism, or sporting back, is more apt to come through the blood influ- 

 ence of the clam than of the sire. I will soon speak particularly of that. 



But why did I breed to General Grant's Arabs, you ask? 



When I have asked a man why he bred a mustang, his reply was, 

 For fun ! Was there any sense in the act or in the reply? 



To this time I have been placing the argument so that reason within 

 the reader would answer the question. 



When William H. Seward's Arabians arrived in i860 (now twenty- 

 five years ago), I had quite a little information upon blood and breeding 

 of horses, — more, indeed, than some men ever will have ; but as it is 

 very unprofitable information, I trust all young men will not be so foolish 

 as I have been. However, I was in the boat, so had to keep paddling 

 and stopping the leaks at the same time ; and here I am to-day, barely 

 afloat: I know, however, there is a safe harbor for me at the end. 



We learn of great facts through deep problems, slowly. It takes 

 time. Thorough investigations are very difficult. 



From 1820 to i860 I believed I had made a careful inquiry and 

 investigation into such Arabian stallions, with results, as had been 

 imported to America to the elate of arrival of the late Mr. Seward's 

 horses ; but the war was under way, stopping, for the time, all else. 



Later, as a dealer and still experimental breeder, the question of 

 Secretary Seward's Arabian horses came up, and my search for them 

 proved like most others of the kind : they had been thrown away. 

 What was left to show for them was being credited to " time-standard 

 bred horses ;" thus, the two best colts to date by one celebrated " time- 

 standard" bred horse, are from a granddaughter of the only son of one 

 of Seward's Arabian horses, out of a granddaughter of Old Henry Clay ; 

 which facts are not known, so the time-standard bred horse gets all 

 credit for the two mares got by him. 



Up to the time of the arrival of General Grant's Arabians I could 

 find no record of the attempts by any man or men to create, with intent 

 and purpose, any specialty from the Arabian horse, while my investiga- 

 tions warranted an effort, as my writings have shown. 



Russia and America demand coach-, stage-, and road-horses to a 

 greater extent than any other nation ; and they must be of a class 

 adapted to general-purpose uses. 



Russia has created and established her national horse upon that 

 base of trotting instinct, and I have shown she did it upon the same 



