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JUPITER. 



FromXong Island Blackhawk came also the stallion Jupiter. His 

 dam was Gipsy, by Almack, son of Mambrino. He was the sire of 

 Jupiter Abdallah, and from him comes another distinguished line of 

 roadsters and trotters, uniting the blood of Blackhawk and Abdallah. 

 I have fully noticed Jupiter Abdallah in Chapter XVI. 



Jupiter has to his credit Lady Emma, with record of 2:2<)^, and six- 

 teen heats in 2:30 or better; also of Lady Hughes, with record of 2:30. 



Long Island Blackhawk also has to his credit Prince, called Hart- 

 ford Prince, with record of 2:24^, and eleven heats in 2:30 or better. 



HENET CLAT. 



From Andrew Jackson came also the black stallion Henry Clay, 

 foaled in 1837. He was the head or founder of the Clay famih'. 

 His dam w^as the Canadian trotting mare called Surry, whose name 

 has been handed down to us as the source of the quitting propensities 

 of the Clay family, by which they have earned the unenviable and 

 unmerited cognomen of Saic-dust. 



She was herself a trotter, and she undoubtedly had a large share in 

 the make-up of the Clay family that have descended from her as their 

 immediate maternal ancestor of the same name. From her history 

 we only know that she was a Canadian and a trotter, and the dam of 

 Henry Clay. 



This horse, Henry Clay, lived to the age of thirty years, and was 

 held in great esteem in the district where he' lived. He was always 

 accused of being untrue and lacking in courage or pluck in the 

 heated contest of the race, and is generally credited with having 

 transmitted the same quality to his descendants. That it was a trait 

 of character which was introduced into the family by the mare Surry, 

 is generally admitted, but that it was a lack of courage or pluck, or 

 physical stamina, is denied by many and must be regarded as very 

 doubtful. The best representatives of the family have either been 

 quitters or have transmitted the quality to their descendants. Geo. 

 M. Patchen was certainly a great horse and one that possessed the 

 best of blood, yet some of his sons were the worst of quitters. , 



Neaves' Cassius M. Clay Jr. was bred from the finest strain of blood 

 on the dam's side known in our American trotter, and his son, Sayer's 

 Harry Clay, came from a daughter of imported Bellfounder, and was 

 the fastest horse of the Clay family in his day, but was an arrant 

 quitter. All the blood of Messenger and Bellfounder failed to efface 



