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York. He was blind at the time he died, in 

 April, 1867. The only standard trotter sired by 

 him was Black Douglas, who took a record of 

 2.30, but he became the progenitor of a family of 

 trotters. In 1842 Joseph Oliver, of Brooklyn, 

 New York, bred to Henry Clay a fine road mare 

 called Jersey Kate, who was noted as the dam of 

 the fast trotting gelding, John Anderson. The 

 outcome was the bay horse, Cassius M. Clay, who 

 passed to George M. Patchen and was celebrated 

 as the best trotting stallion of his era. Only one 

 fast trotter came from his loins, and that was 

 George M. Patchen. One of his sons, Cassius 

 M. Clay Jr. (Amos), a black horse foaled in 1854, 

 was the sire of the famous trotter, American Girl, 

 2.i6|-. Another son, Neaves's Cassius M. Clay, a 

 brown horse, foaled in 1848, and out of a daughter 

 of Chancellor by Mambrino by imported Mes- 

 senger, was the sire of four record trotters, — 

 Lady Lockwood, 2.25; George Cooley, 2.27; 

 Lew Sayers, 2.28f ; and Harry Clay, 2.29. He 

 was taken from New York to Ohio, where he 

 broke a leg and was destroyed. Strader's Cassius 

 M. Clay was a brown horse, foaled in 1852, and 

 by Cassius M. Clay (son of Henry Clay) out of a 

 daughter of Abdallah, she out of a mare by Law- 



