870 THE BASHAWS AND CLAYS. 



later evidences seem to show that she was by a son of Tippoo Saib. 

 She was a mare of great merit, and trotted two-mile beats and beat 

 many of the early celebrities of the Messenger family. Long Island 

 Blackhawk produced several of the same name, among them 

 Vernol's, Brooks' and Seely's; the latter from a daughter of Tom 

 Thumb, the Canadian, and she was daughter of the Charles Kent mare, 

 by Bellfounder, the dam of Hambletonian. 



green's bashaw. 



From this same mare, Belle, by Weber's Tom Thumb, Vernol's 

 Blackhawk produced Green's Bashaw, a horse that has attained celeb- 

 rity in the West, both as a trotter and as a sire of trotters. He has 

 shown a capacity to trot in 2:24, and has produced Bashaw Jr., record 

 2:24f, and twenty-eight heats in 2:30 or better; Kirkwood, record 2:24, 

 and four heats in 2:30; Rose of Washington, 2:27, and eight heats in 

 2:30; Wild Oats, 2:29f; Wapsie, the sire of Gen. Grant, who 

 has a record of 2:21, and fifteen heats in 2:30; and West Liberty, 

 2:28, and three heats in 2:30. He is yet living, and has been a very 

 noted stallion for a long time. His Canadian cross appears in most of 

 his stock in the short and thick neck by which they are distinguished, 

 but his blood will be found very valuable, especially as a vigorous 

 outcross to the closely in-bred Hambletonian and Abdallah families. 

 He is a black horse, with no other white than a star, and breeds blacks, 

 bays and many dark chestnuts. He was foaled in 1855, and was 

 owned for many years by the late Joseph A. Green, of Muscatine, 

 Iowa, and is now owned in Illinois. 



Long Island Blackhawk also produced the stallion Eureka, a name 

 that occurs quite frequently in the pedigree of Eastern bred horses. 



He was also the sire of the chestnut stallion Mohawk, that proved 

 to be a very valuable horse, and left as his representatives, Elmo, 

 record of 2:27, and eight heats in 2:30; Mohawk Chief, 2:30; Hall's 

 Mohawk, 2:20; and Mohawk Jr., 2:25, and eight heats in 2:30. He 

 died in 1869, after six years service in Knox county, Ohio. 



I have also seen the statement that the stallion Nonpariel was by 

 Long Island Blackhawk, although he is also in the Trottin<j Register 

 credited to Cassius M. Clay. He has three trotters in the 2:30 list: 

 California Damsel, 2:24^; Commodore Perry, 2:27-^; and Western 

 N.ew York, 2:29. Nonpariel was probably by Cassius M. Clay. 



