CHAPTER XL 



THE BASHAWS AND CLAYS. 



Grand Bashaw, Imported Arabian, the founder — Young Bashaw — Andrew 

 Jackson — Green's Bashaw — The Patchens. 



THE BLUE BULLS. 



Wilson's Blue Bull — His great success in the stud — Great progenitor of 

 speed — List of trotters and dams of trotters by Blue Bull. 



THE progenitor of the Bashaw family was Grand Bashaw, 

 an Arabian horse foaled in 1816 and imported from 

 Tripoli in 1825 by Joseph C. Morgan. He stood near Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., for stock purposes for twenty years, and many of 

 our fast trotters are descended from him. 



His most distinguished son was Young Bashaw, a gray 

 horse foaled in 1822, whose dam was Pearl by the thorough- 

 bred horse First Consul ; dam by Imported Messenger. 



He was the founder of what is known as the Bashaw 

 family of American trotters, and whose most noted son was 

 Andrew Jackson, a black horse foaled in 1828, and whose 

 dam was a good mare, pedigree unknown. 



This Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Clay family. 

 His most noted son was Henry Clay, foaled in 1837, and 

 whose dam was a Canadian mare called Surry, pedigree un- 

 traced, but a good one and a fast trotter. 



Henry Clay's best son, by the records, was Cassius M. 

 Clay, foaled in 1843, and whose dam's pedigree was unknown. 



Cassius M. Clay was the sire of three Cassius M. Clay, 

 Jr.'s, with eight in the list, and George M. Patchen, the 

 founder of the Patchen branch, with four in the 2.30 list. 



The greatest sire of all the Bashaw family, by the records, 

 was Green's Bashaw, five removes from the old imported 



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