" CLAYRABIA," AND " CLAYBEALE GRANT." r, 



with speedily satisfactory results. It was from knowing this that I 

 selected my mares with so great care to stint to General U. S. Grant's 

 Arabians. 



I will tell you of another move I made before, at the time, and after 

 I had bred to General Grant's Arabians. I owned Jack Sheppard, 

 Ashland, Black Henry, and Rushmore, each a son of Henry Clay. To 

 these I added Baltimore's Henry Clay or Hepburn, and Spink, by 

 Andy Johnson by Henry Clay. I had mares by Old Henry, which I 

 stinted to these horses. I then added Clay Pilot by Neave's Clay by 

 Cassius M. Clay by Henry Clay, to secure the Pilot blood. I had in 

 the mean time selected choice mares by the best sons of Henry Clay 

 which were dead; they were Harrison Clay, Madison Clay, and Colonel 

 Wadsworth. 



With the get of these sons of Henry Clay out of my better-bred 

 mares by Henry Clay and his sons, I sold to Henry C. Jewett & Co., 

 of Buffalo, Black Henry, Rushmore, and Ashland, also Sailor by Ash- 

 land, urging them, as the stallions were old, to breed Clay blood close, 

 if they could get the mares. But they were strongly impressed with 

 the cry of "cross and out-cross," as public opinion and public prejudice 

 were financially important to them ; so I ceased to speak, pursuing my 

 own course marked out. I knew that breeding to an uncertainty, with 

 any amount of capital at the back, must be failure in the end ; and that 

 to breed to a certainty, with no capital, could be no worse. 



My close breeding of Clay was very satisfactory. The foals came 

 in excellent form, — strong, healthy, and active, growing up handsomer, 

 finer, and larger than the parent stock, every one showing strong 

 trotting- instinct. 



I was fortunate in that my inbreeding of Clay gave me almost every 

 time a filly, while my Arab get came horses. This attempt dates from 

 1880, so that my first are now past four years old, and so clown to suck- 

 lings. To accomplish my purpose I had to keep all produce. My old 

 stock represented the choicest possible selections, which I would not 

 sell ; then to part with my inbred fillies, was to rob my Arabian Clay 

 stallion colts, and frustrate my attempts. 



My purse was short; and but for the Hon. Erastus Corning, of 

 Albany, F. P. Freeman, of New York, and L. B. Ashley, of Rochester, 

 I should have been unable to continue to this time. It has been a long 

 hold. The privations I have endured, the physical labor I have under- 

 gone, the large amount of public and private writing I have accom- 

 plished have been little compared with the unjust, untruthful, and cruel 



