CHAPTER XXXIII 



JEWETT FARM 



FOR a number of years the rival of Village Farm 

 in Erie County, New York, was Jewett Stock Farm 

 at East Aurora. The Hamlin buildings were modest 

 when compared with the elaborate buildings of 

 Jewett. The latter cost a great deal of money and 

 presented an imposing appearance. There are 400 

 acres in the place, and the breeding foundations were 

 laid in 1878. The Casenovia Creek flows along 

 the eastern border of the farm. A pet driving mare, 

 cream-colored, that the father of Henry C. Jewett 

 drove on the road, was the spark from which grew 

 the flame. A costly improvement on the farm was a 

 covered mile track, which allowed training opera- 

 tions to go on without regard to the state of the 

 weather. Henry C. Jewett, although associated with 

 his brother and his father, was from the start the 

 directing spirit of the establishment. One of his 

 fads was the blood of Henry Clay, the black horse 

 foaled in 1837, anc ^ ^Y Andrew Jackson (son of 

 Young Bashaw by Grand Bashaw), dam the Surrey 

 mare, a trotter from Canada. In 1882 Black Henry 

 was regarded as the best living son of Henry Clay, 

 and he was a black of 15.2, with good action. Sailor 

 by Young Ashland, son of Henry Clay, was a horse 



