384 THE BASHAWS AND CLAYS. 



family, to refer to the wide dissemination of the blood coming through 

 that line in its intermingling with the blood of other families. When 

 we take into view the number of noted trotters that have crosses of 

 this blood, they seem to rival any family we have ever produced. 

 This is owing to causes and facts that are apparent. The Bellfounder 

 family, in the direct line, has had no distinguished stallion since the 

 days of the Norfolk Trotter, while the Bashaw or Clay family has 

 been as noted for the number of its distingfuished sires as it has been 

 for its trotters: Andrew Jackson, Long Island Blackhawk, Henry 

 Clay, Cassius M. Clay and all his sons, and the number has been im- 

 mense and all noted for success. Cassius M. Clay only served in the 

 stud eight years, and the distinction that usually attends old stallions 

 from the better class of mares that their success attracts, was lost to 

 him by his early death, yet he was the immediate progenitor of one 

 of the largest families ever credited to any stallion. His greatness of 

 quality may not have surpassed or even equaled some others, but the 

 universal prevalence and wide dissemination of that quality gives him 

 great value in the historical estimate of the growth and development 

 of our trotting families. The controversies that have been waged, 

 growing out qi the alleged low breeding or lack of stamina of the 

 mare Surry, have called out some lists, or tables, showing the position 

 and records of horses having crosses of Clay or Bashaw blood at vari-. 

 ous periods of our turf history. While it is obvious that in many of 

 these large credit, and often the chief credit, is due to the other 

 families from which these animals have in part descended, yet these 

 tables are not wholly devoid of interest or value. 

 ; J have caused a table to be prepared showing the number of perform- 

 ers in the 2:30 list coming from the Bashaw family, not Clays, in the 

 direct or male line, and another list of the male descendants of Henry 

 Clay, which will show the numbers and the great respectability of this 

 excellent family. They are as follows: 



BASHAWS NOT CLAYS. 



No. Performers. Heats. Time. 



Bashaw (Green's), son of yernol's Blackhawk 4 43 2 :34 



Black Bashaw (Blumberg's), son of Bay Bashaw 2 107 2 :19 



Black Dutcliman, son of Doble's Black Bashaw 2 10 2:28 



Jackson, son of Andrew Jackson 1 7 2 :28 J^ 



Jupiter, son of Long Island Blackhawk 2 17 2 -.Id},^ 



Jupiter Abdallah, son of Jupiter 3 10 2 :26 



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