378 THE BASHAWS AI^D CLAYS. 



went to the hills of Boone county, where he remained until in 1876, 

 when he became the property of Gen. Withers and returned to 

 Lexington, where he ought justly to have lived from the beginning 

 of his career until the close of it. His removal from the Blue Grass 

 region was unfortunate for his reputation, and more unfortunate 

 for the breeding interest of the whole country. 



His success with thoroughbred mares, and with those highly bred 

 but utterly wanting in trotting qualities themselves, stamped him as 

 a very valuable stallion. I have seen as fine trotting action in the 

 produce of this horse from thoroughbred mares, as any I have 

 seen anywhere. A bay filly, three years old, whose dam was old 

 Midway by Boston, the only mare that ever beat the renowned Lex- 

 ington a single heat in a race, was one of elegant finish and superior 

 trotting quality. I do not know what became of her. The mare 

 Jenny Miller, out of a highly bred mare, was taken to Hartford, and 

 was an elegant trotter and a very superior mare. From a thorough- 

 bred mare by imported Tranby, he jDroduced 



AMERICAN CLAY, 



A beautiful bay horse that was made blind from an attack of 

 catarrhal fever, but at the age of twelve years he was trotting, totally 

 blind, in 2:35, against his own sons and daughters, one of the most 

 numerous families in the State of Kentucky. Magic, the sire of 

 Post Boy, 2:26^; Curtis Clay; Ella Clay, 2:27i; Union Clay; Gran- 

 ville, 2:26; Maggie Briggs, 2:27 — were all by American Clay. He 

 was owned by the late Thos. L. Coons, of Fayette county, Ky. 



Another son of Strader's Clay was Gen. Hatch, from a mare by 

 imported Envoy out of the dam of American Clay; he was also a 

 successful stallion of very fine quality. 



Another son, Crittenden, was one of the fastest young stallions ever 

 bred in Kentucky, and is a horse of great superiority'. 



He also produced Kentucky Clay from the dam of Lady Thorn, 

 but I believe he was not very popular. 



neely's henry clay. 



This is a stallion which combines two great and valuable elements, 

 and should make a superior stallion. He was foaled in 1809, and is a 

 handsome, large bay stallion, very evenly formed. He is by Strader's 

 Cassius M. Clay, dam Sue Letcher, by Alexander's Norman. He was 

 awarded the first premium at the Illinois State Fair, and it is believed 



