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the wire-like plates, ball-bearing, pneumatic- 

 tired sulkies, and cobweb-like harness of to-day. 

 and decide whether even the most phenomenal 

 of our trotters is better than that. 



Another performance shows the stoutness of 

 heart of this great horse. General Wadsworth 

 needed a doctor for his sister. Henry Clay was 

 harnessed to a two-seated wagon, did the journey 

 from Geneseo to Rochester, thirty-eight miles, 

 and then back again, the whole seventy-six miles 

 being covered in less than five hours. A horse that 

 could do that was worthy to found a family. He 

 did this through his son. Black Douglas, his 

 grandson, Cassius M. Clay, and his grandson, 

 George M. Patchen. His female descendants are 

 conspicuous in the trotting-horse pedigrees, the 

 most conspicuous among them being Green 

 Mountain Maid, the dam of Electioneer, and 

 conceded by the Standard Bred Trotter element 

 to be the greatest dam in American horse 

 history. She was got by Harry Clay,* a great 

 grandson of the founder of the family. 



* It has been said that the Star mare, the dam of Dexter, was served 

 both byRysdyk's Hambletonian and Harry Clay the spring before Dex- 



