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



five, one hundred, or one hundred and fifty dollars per head at a selling 

 age ; and yet, from our present way of breeding, it will be exceptionally 

 good ones to bring those prices. 



In closing this article I would have every breeder in the land con- 

 sider me his friend. I can sympathize with them in their troubles, for I 

 know them from practical experience. No other breeder has so many. 

 The trials, disappointments, and vexations are greater than in any other 

 occupation, in which they can have little sympathy from the financial, 

 commercial, or social world. Indeed, outside their own calling they can 

 have little intercourse, and that is not always companionable. 



As I have said, I am growing old fast ; and would make a sugges- 

 tion, that a syndicate of younger men of means, interested in the 

 breeding of horses, should take my entire foundation as it is to-day, 

 then build up from it a "national horse" to their own credit, and to the 

 credit of the country, to which the name of General U. S. Grant would 

 be a base, and to whose memory this book is dedicated. 



Having introduced a transcript from old English records relating 

 to the foundation of their thoroughbred race-horse, I have, with permis- 

 sion, taken portions from General Smith's genealogical tabulation for 

 his Golddust stallion, extending them somewhat from my own records. 



By them, gentlemen who have been accustomed to cite Sir Archy, 

 American Eclipse, Duroc, Diomed, or other thoroughbred running- 

 horses as the blood cause for superior merit in our coach-, road-, and 

 trotting-horse, will the more easily understand my preaching of Arabian 

 blood direct. 



It is also a recorded fact in English turf history, that such sires as 

 were most closely related to their imported Arabian stallions were the 

 getters of their highest rates of speed, with endurance. The tables I 

 have given, showing prominent thoroughbred running-horses, are neces- 

 sarily in part the foundation of our great American trotting-horse; but 

 with me it does not seem necessary to take the blood cause in that way, 

 for it is too expensive, and too far-fetched. Strike from the shoulder! 

 Messenger, we know, was positive for trot ; he was triply inbred to the 

 Arab. Andrew Jackson and his best son, Henry Clay, were, like im- 

 ported Messenger, close-bred to Arabian blood, — were born trotters, 

 which blood instinct they gave strongly to their get from any and all 

 classes of dams. I will, in brief, tabulate them. Again, L. L. Dorsey's 

 old Golddust so strongly verifies my argument, I will also introduce him 

 in genealogical tabulation, which brings in the famous Justin Morgan. 



In speaking of Justin Morgan, permit me to state that from my 



