482 THE HORSE. 



LoDg Island Black Hawk's best son as a stock lK)rse was Henrj^ 

 Clay, out of Surry, a mare of great speed from Canada. Henry 

 Clay begot trotters, and died in 1867, aged 30 years. His son, 

 Cassius M. Clay, out of a fast mare of unknown pedigree, was the 

 sire of Patchen, and the ancestor of a numerous progeny of trot- 

 ters. He may be considered the founder of a family of Clays, 

 including C. M. Clay, Jr., Harry Clay (believed by many to be the 

 sire of Dexter), Amos's C. M. Clay, the sire of American Girl, 

 that trotted in 2m. 40s. at 4 years old, and 2m. 32 ^s. at 5 years 

 old J Clay Pilot, Kentucky Clay, Cora, Nonpareil, and others. 



A very good and handsome family are the Morrills, a branch 

 of the Morgans; Morrill being a descendant of Justin Morgan, 

 with two crosses of Diomed and four of Messenger to account for 

 the trotting. His best colt was Young Morrill, owned by Samuel 

 Perkins, Cambridge, Mass., now about 20 years old, and sire of 

 Draco, Fearnought, Danville Boy, Mountain Maid, Hiram Wood- 

 ruff, and many others that are among the best of road horses. He 

 is more of a Morgan than his sire (see pedigree. Table V.), having 

 two lines of descent from Justin Morgan on his dam's side. 



The Morgans are not distinguished as fast trotters, though 

 many of them, like the Canadians, from whom they are in part 

 descended, are good and smart road horses ; and when crossed 

 with Messenger, as Ethan Allen, Flying Cloud, Morrill, Lone Star, 

 &c., they are among the best. 



Another family of very excellent reputation are the American 

 Stars. The founder of the family was foaled in 1837, and died 

 in 1861, the property of Jonas Seely, Orange county, N. Y. He 

 had some Messenger blood, but more of Diomed through Duroc 

 in one line and Sir Henry in another. See his pedigree in the 

 pedigree of Dexter, Table VII. The dam of Dexter was by Ameri- 

 can Star, as were a good many fast trotters, the best of which is 

 Peerless, a gray mare, foaled in 1853, and owned by Robert Bon- 

 ner, of New York. Hiram Woodruff said she was the fastest 

 animal that he or any other man ever drove to a wagon, and that 

 he drove her a quarter in 30s. and a mile in 2m. 28 is. Her dam 

 was full of Messenger blood. American Star was a rat- tailed 

 horse, and some of his colts are rather deticient in hair on their 

 tails; but they are fast and very gamey. 



Green's Bashaw, foaled in 1855, and owned in Muscatine, Iowa, 

 has some superior colts, among them Kirkwood and Bashaw, Jr., 

 both fast; and this, together with his remarkable pedigree (Table 

 III.), justifies the expectation that he will become the head of a 

 distinguished family. On his sire's side he has the Messenger 

 blood through four channels, and on his dam's side the same pedi- 

 gree as lij'sdyk's Hambletonian with an additional cross of Web 



