222 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



individuals of great families and uniting their 

 blood in a way to produce harmonious results — 

 conformation, good heads, speed, and the ability 

 to adhere to gait." The Abbot, 2.03J, the 

 fastest trotter ever bred by Mr. Hamlin, illus- 

 trates the idea. He is by Chimes (son of Elec- 

 tioneer and Beautiful Bells), dam Nettie King, 

 2. 20 J, by Mambrino King (son of Mambrino 

 Patchen and Belle Thornton by Edwin Forrest); 

 second dam Nettie Murphy by Hamlin Patchen. 

 Lord Derby, 2.05^, is another illustration. He 

 is by Mambrino King, dam Clarabel by Hamlin's 

 Almont Jr. (son of Almont and Maggie Gaines 

 by Blood's Black Hawk); second dam by Almon- 

 arch, 2.24^ (son of Almont and Hi, thoroughbred 

 daughter of Asteroid, son of Lexington); third 

 dam Black Woful by Hamlin Patchen. 



Harry Clay, whose register number is 45, 

 but who passed from Decatur Sayre to Erastus 

 Corning, and from him to J. D. Willis, was a black 

 horse, foaled in 1853, and by Cassius M. Clay Jr. 

 (Neaves), grandson of Henry Clay ; dam Fan by 

 imported Bellfounder, the sire of the Charles Kent 

 Mare, dam of Rysdyk's Hambletonian. July 9, 

 1864, he trotted at Chicago to a record of 2.29. 

 He was faster than this, but those who knew him 



