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existence before their day. After his dam was bred to Young' 

 Bashaw, she became the property of one Daniel Jeffreys, a brick 

 maker, and she brought forth her colt in a brick yard, where the first 

 adventure of the youngster, before he was able to feed from his mother, 

 was to tumble into one of the pools or pits where they had mixed the 

 clay for making brick, out of which he was dragged in no state to give 

 any promise of the future greatness of the Clay family. He seemed, 

 either from the mishap that attended his birth, or from natural weak- 

 ness, to be a worthless colt, and could not stand erect on his pasterns 

 but bent them over at every effort to stand upright. His owner 

 was ready to have him destroyed and put out of sight, but the moth- 

 erly kindness of his wife saved the colt. A little careful nursing soon 

 brought him out, and the Andrew Jackson trotting stallion of later 

 years lived to make rich returns for the early but important acts of 

 kindness which saved his life. How many breeders have lost valuable 

 colts from the lack of a little care for two or three days at like critical 

 periods. I am of the number. 



Andrew Jackson was a strong, compact, well-formed horse on short 

 legs. He was a jet black, with a white strip in his face, and three 

 white legs — a color and set of marks that follow the family with very 

 great tenacity to the present day. 



Andrew Jackson was not only a trotter of distinction in his 

 day, but, as a sire of trotting horses, he ranked in his time next to 

 Abdallah. While he did not equal the latter in point of breeding, 

 his trotting qualities were so far cultivated and kept in a state of high 

 development, that he left his mark as a trotting sire very impres- 

 sively. His races seem to have been two-mile heats mainly, and he 

 generally made the time for the two miles in 5:19 to 5:25. It was 

 claimed in bis day that he could trot a mile in 2:30, but he made no 

 such record. He was the sire of Kemble Jackson, who was also a 

 trotter famous for bottom in those days, and made a three-mile 

 record of 8:03, and a record of 2:40 for a single mile to wagon. 



LOXG ISLAND BLACKHAWK. 



In the year 1837, Andrew Jackson produced the black stallion, 

 Long Island Blackhawk, the first stallion to trot in 2:40 with a 250 

 pound wagon. His dam was the famous mare, Sally Miller, the old- 

 time competitor of Andrew Jackson*. This son was highly distin- 

 guished, like his sire, both as a trotter and the sire of trotters. His 

 dam, Sally Miller, was claimed to be a daughter of Mambrino, but 



