42 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



trotting mare Lady Surrey, brought from Canada and owned by 

 George M. Patchen, was bred to Andrew Jackson, from which 

 in 1837 sne dropped a foal, named Henry Clay, the sire from 

 which this family derives its name. Henry Clay sired Black 

 Douglas and Cassius M. Clay, the latter celebrated in his day 

 and the sire of George M. Patchen. The latter made a record 

 of 2.23!- in 1860 and later became a distinguished sire, six- 

 teen of his sons having standard records and thirty-five of his 

 daughters being dams of either trotters or pacers. 



The Pilot family. A black or dark brown horse by the name 

 of Pilot first attracted attention in this family. He was foaled in 

 1828 in the province of Quebec. His sire is unknown and his 

 dam was Jeanne d'Arc, by Voyager. When eighteen months 

 old he was taken to Connecticut, and in 1830 to New York. In 

 1831 he was sold to go to New Orleans and in 1832 he was 

 returned to Kentucky, where he died about 1853 on the farm of 

 Robert Bell near Henderson. Pilot was not only a pacer but he 

 would also trot. His greatest son was Pilot Jr., a gray horse 

 15^ hands high, foaled in 1844, out of Nancy Polk by Funk's 

 Havoc. Pilot Jr. was a very successful breeder of brood mares. 

 Bred to Sally Russell, a Thoroughbred daughter of Boston, he 

 sired Miss Russell, one of the greatest American brood mares, 

 the mother of the great Maud S. Another daughter, Midnight, 

 out of a Thoroughbred daughter of Lexington, was the dam of 

 Jay- Eye-See with a pacing record of 2.06^ and a trotting record 

 of 2.10. Waterwitch, another daughter of Pilot Jr., produced 

 nineteen foals that lived, six of which made records of 2.30 or 

 better. The family history of Pilot is more or less obscure. He 

 bred both pacers and trotters, and rendered valuable service to 

 the American racing-horse interests. 



Hal family. Years ago down in Kentucky there was kept 

 a roan saddle horse, bred in Canada, known as Tom Hal. It is 

 said that he was much abused in his time, was ridden nearly to 

 death over rocky roads by a drunken wretch in an elm-crotch 

 saddle. For years he stood at a fee of $5 .00 to insure, with no pay 

 if he did not get a good saddle horse. His ancestry is somewhat 

 obscure, but it is claimed that he had Morgan blood in his veins. 

 Tom Hal attained fame as the sire of Gibson's Tom Hal, the 



