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Mambrino Chief and Hambletonian 10 produced most efficient 

 results. While the Mambi-ino family ranks perhaps second in 

 importance, it is gradually being absorbed by Hambletonian blood 

 and, according to Parlin, will in time become extinct. 



The Clay family. In 1820 a Barb stallion known as Grand 

 Bashaw, foaled in 18 16, was imported from Tripoli, Africa. He 

 was regarded as of great beauty and showed both action and 

 speed. He was a small iron gray, standing 14^ hands high. 

 Used in the stud near Philadelphia he sired Young Bashaw 

 out of a granddaughter of Imported Messenger. Young Bashaw 

 sired Andrew Jackson, the fastest trotter of his day. The 

 trotting mare Lady Surrey, brought from Canada and owned by 

 George M. Patchen, was bred to Andrew Jackson, from which in 

 1837 she dropped a black foal named Henry Clay, the sire from 

 which this family derives its name. He stood about 15^ hands 

 high, had plenty of substance, was a natural trotter, and "an 

 untiring roadster." He was not himself a prolific sire, and but 

 three of his sons — Cassius M. Clay, Andy Johnson, and Henry 

 Clay Junior — are noteworthy. Cassius M. Clay was sire of 

 George M. Patchen (2:23!), that in i860 established a world's 

 record and also became a noted sire of both sons and daughters. 

 Stamboul (2:07^) had for second dam Patchen Maid, by George 

 M. Patchen. The Clay family, though possessing a long line of 

 trotting inheritance, bids fair to become extinct through absorption 

 by the Hambletonians. 



The Morgan family. This is one of our oldest trotting families 

 and inherits its name from a stallion named Justin Morgan, 

 foaled in 1793 at West Springfield, Massachusetts. From this 

 place he was taken to Vermont, in which state this family of 

 horses has gained great distinction. Justin Morgan was sired by 

 True Briton, whose ancestry may be traced back to the Godolphin 

 Barb ; his dam is given as Diamond, she also tracing back to the 

 Godolphin Barb. It is but fair to state here that the breeding of 

 Justin Morgan is more or less questioned, and the above ances- 

 try is based on investigations of Joseph Battell of Middlebury, 

 Vermont. This stallion is described as about 14 hands high, 

 weighing 950 pounds, dark bay with black points, and possessed of 

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