ii6 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



gular qualities of the son of Mambrino Paymas- 

 ter, derived from his untraced dam, disappeared 

 under the double infusion of Oriental strains. In 

 1855, one year after Mambrino Chief had left the 

 picturesque hills of Dutchess County for the his- 

 toric groves of Ashland, which gave inspiration 

 to Henry Clay, Levi S. Rodes of Fayette County, 

 Kentucky, bred to him a mare of quality by Gano, 

 a thoroughbred son of the four-mile race-horse 

 American Eclipse, and the fruit was a bay filly, 

 foaled in the spring of 1856, purchased by George 

 Dunlap of Lexington, and for a short time driven 

 on the road by him. When three years old this 

 filly became the property of Dr. L. Herr, who 

 trained and started her in public under the name 

 of Maid of Ashland. Subsequently she was sold 

 to C. P. Relf of Pennsylvania, and under the 

 name of Lady Thorn made a reputation which 

 will endure until the obliteration of trotting annals. 

 She was the rival of Dexter on the turf, trotted 

 to a record of 2.18^ at Providence, Rhode Island, 

 Octobers, 1869, and met with an accident when 

 being led into a car at Rochester, New York, 

 August 4, 1870, which forced her into retirement. 

 Her owner, Henry N. Smith, then made her a 

 brood mare at the Fashion Stud Farm, Trenton, 



