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care of D. B. Walker, at Rockport, 111., 1856. A very stylish, rangy and 

 fine horse ; colts speedy, and made excellent carriage horses. 



HENRY CLAY (WILSON'S) 



Dapple gray, dark points, i$y 2 hands, 1050 pounds ; foaled about 1849 ; bred 

 by Hiram Wilson, Ticonderoga, N. Y. ; got by Black Hawk : dam gray, bought 

 when a weanling by Mr. Wilson of a man who lived in Crown Point, N. Y., 

 said to be by a Post Boy horse. Kept by breeder at Crown Point, N. Y., 

 1855 ; also kept in Warren county, and probably elsewhere in Essex county. 

 Stood at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., one or two seasons, said to have been owned 

 by Messrs. P.ogers Callender. Died, about 1874, the property of W. Philo, 

 Queensbury, N. Y. Very stylish, fine gaited, kind, and could trot in 2 145 ; 

 stock stylish and good roadsters. We are informed that he received the 2d 

 premium at the United States Horse show, held at Philadelphia, Penn., 

 October, 1856, at which Sherman Black Hawk got the ist. 



Charles C. Dayton, Milton, N. Y., writes : " Beautiful in appearance, 

 action as near perfection as I ever saw, disposition gentle as a lamb. The 

 first colt I raised from him could trot as a four-year-old in 2 130, and the 

 second colt, Fannie, would trot in about 2 140 ". Wm. A. G. Arthur, Ticon- 

 deroga, N. Y., writes : " Mr. Wilson raised from this dam another gray horse 

 colt and a filly, both by old Black Hawk. He used to drive them together, 

 and I think they were as fine a pair as I ever saw, both very stylish. This 

 young stallion died when seven or eight. He raised a gray stallion from the 

 Black Hawk mare and old Black Hawk, a very fine horse that died when six 

 or seven ". 



Sire : Capt. Beaumont, i. 



CAPTAIN BEAUMONT (ECLIPSE, HARRIS HORSE) 

 Gray, iS/4 hands, 1000 pounds ; bred by Col. John Harris, Ticonderoga, 

 N. Y. ; foaled 1854; got by Henry Clay, son of Black Hawk: dam brown, 

 pacer, foaled about 1846, said to be by Morgan Henry, son of Barney Henry. 

 Taken, when three, by S. V. R. Harris, nephew of breeder, and sold to I. H. 

 Beaumont, Freeport, 111. Owned, about 1870, at Vinton, la., where he died 

 soon after. A very superior stock horse ; many of his sons were kept entire. 

 James Beaumont, brother to I. H.Beaumont, writes: " I knew the horse 

 well. He was a beautiful horse and fast for his time ". J. H. Miller, Free- 

 port, 111., writes : " He was the best foal-getter I ever knew ; got more good 

 colts ". 



Races won, 20. Races lost, 30. Total races, 50. 



