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He Wcas the sire of Lucy, with a record of 2:18^; Patchen Chief, 

 2:25^; CaHfornia Patchen, 2:27; Mary, 2:28; Godfrey's Patchen, 

 sire of Hopeful^ 2:17^; I^ady Snell, 2:23^; George H., 2:2G; Henry 

 W. Genet, 2:26; Rex Patchen, 2:30; and Wellesley Boy, 2:26i. Also 

 of George M. Patchen Jr., sire of Sam. Fuvdj, 2:20|; xMcMann, 2:2Sf; 

 San Bruno, 2:25^; and. Smith's Patchen, sire of Orient, 2:24. 



His stock are all stout, and show the Messenger blood in its most 

 characteristic form. His grandsons, Sam. Purdy, Hopeful and Orient, 

 are large horses with heavy quarters, broad across the hips and loin, 

 but no longer from hip to hock, or in the thigh, than the Messenger 

 standand of 39 and 23. They constitute a formidable trio on tlie 

 trottino- turf. All of his own sons that I have ever seen have 

 very large heads, not homely in form but simply large and coarse, 

 evidently going back to the coarse and low breeding of his grandam. 

 His tendency to breed back toward her in great part accounts for 

 his attaining no greater eminence in the stud. 



Amos' C. M. Clay Jr. was the sire of the celebrated mare 

 American Girl that made a record of 2:16+ to date, the fastest 

 representative of the Clay or Bashaw family in the direct line. The 

 name of Iron Duke occupies a place in several valuable pedigrees. 



strader's cassius m. clay je. 



One of the finest bred trotting stallions now living is Strader's C. 

 M. Clay Jr., owned by Gen. W. T. Withers, of Lexington, Kentucky, 

 and is the stable companion of Almont. 



He was foaled in 1853, and is consequently now twenty-five years 

 old, but shows no visible indications that he has not as many years 

 yet before him. He was by old Cassius M. Clay; first dam by Abdal- 

 lah; second dam by LawTcnce's Eclipse; third dam the Charles Hadley 

 mare by imported Messenger. He was bred under the following 

 circumstances: Dr. Spaulding, of Greenupsburg, Kentucky, through 

 Joseph H. Godwin, of New York, the then owner of Neaves' Cassius 

 M. Clay Jr., purchased the Abdallah mare in New York, and bred 

 her to old Cassius the sire, and the mare in foal was shipped to 

 Greenupsburg, Ky., or Franklin Furnace, Ohio, and there gave 

 birth to this horse. He in later years became the property of the 

 Messrs. Strader, of Cincinnati, and Boone county, Kentucky, and 

 was thenceforward called Strader's Cassius M. Clay Jr. 



He spent one or more seasons at Lexington, and then was in 

 charge of George W. Ogden, near Paris, Kentucky, and afterward 



