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best have frankly conceded that he was not a 

 resolute race-horse. He had a good deal in him 

 of what Robert Bonner once, in the heat of con- 

 troversy, characterized as sawdust. Four trotters 

 came from his loins, the fastest of which was 

 Clayton, 2.19. Shawmut, 2.26, one of his sons, 

 is a speed-producing stallion ; but it is as a brood- 

 mare sire that Harry Clay stands out with promi- 

 nence. Flora, one of his daughters, bred to 

 Volunteer, produced St. Julien, who was a sen- 

 sational trotter in 1880, taking a record of 2.1 1 J 

 at Hartford. Another daughter, Hattie Wood, 

 out of Grandmother by Terror, son of American 

 Eclipse, challenged national attention at Stony 

 Ford by producing Gazelle, 2.21, and three suc- 

 cessful sires. Idol, Louis Napoleon, and Victor 

 Bismarck. Hattie Hogan by Harry Clay out 

 of Nellie Sayre by Seely's American Star, pro- 

 duced Hogarth, who was the champion four-year- 

 old stallion of 1877, retiring with a record of 2.26. 

 Her daughters were producers, and Mr. Backman 

 valued her highly. The greatest of the daugh- 

 ters of Harry Clay in the Stony Ford collection 

 was Green Mountain Maid, whose fame will 

 endure as long as the trotting horse holds a 

 place in the esteem of mankind. I shall speak 



