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By chance, she came in contact with a little Canadian stallion of 

 no great quality, and the result was, she produced a colt that after- 

 ward became the trotter John Anderson, of some celebrity, and it 

 then occurred to the owner of the mare, that if she could produce 

 such a trotter from an ordinary pony, it might be a good investment 

 to send her to Henry Clay, then a popular stallion of recognized 

 merit and excellent blood. The suggestion was acted upon, and the 

 produce was Cassius M. Clay, certainly one of the most noted stal- 

 lions this country has yet produced. 



He is recorded as standing at the head of the list of trotting stal- 

 lions of his day, and such fact is conceded by all. He was a brown 

 horse, and lived only eleven years. He produced Neaves' Cassius M. 

 Clay Jr. in 1848; Geo. M. Patchen in 1849; Strader's Cassius M. 

 Clay Jr. in 1852; Iron Duke in 1853; and Amos' Cassius M. Clay Jr. 

 in 1854. He also produced the stallion Telegraph, from whom came 

 the dam of Rarus. He left several other sons and daughters who 

 enter conspicuously into the trotting families of this country. 



neaves' cassius m. clay je. 



Neaves' Cassius M. Clay Jr. was a brown horse, marked as the 

 family before him for several generations, and transmitted the same 

 marks — white face and legs — to his descendants with great uniformity. 



He was exceedingly well bred, and was a fast and valuable stallion. 

 His dam was by Chancellor, son of Mambrino, and his grandarn by 

 Engineer second, the sire of Lady Suifolk. He was in the stvid only a 

 short time, and was destroyed in consequence of breaking his leg. 



He produced the fast mare Cora, a black mare that trotted in 2:37f 

 as a three-year-old, and was afterward lost in a fire. He also pro- 

 duced Sayer's Harry Clay from a daughter of imported Bellfounder, 

 that now occupies a position before the country by virtue of the 

 merits of his daughters as dams of trotters, second in that respect to 

 no stallion we have ever seen. 



GEOKGE M. PATCHEN. 



George M. Patchen ranked deservedlv as one of the arreat trotters 

 and trotting stallions of this country. 



The pedigree of his dam is not known, that which has l^een given 

 in the Trotting Register having been overturned by the editor, 

 apparently with a view of setting up one in its place. In the case 

 of several mares that have become the dams of great trotters or sires, 



