Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-21
HENRY CLAY
Accurate statement of the Descent Of =
Noted Horse Inmiiy.

Noted Horse Family.
The editor Of tho Watcryillc tMe. }
Turf, Farm and Home has bccn at pains
60 procure mn extended and corrected ac
count Of the exact pedigree n the famous
horse Henry Clay In tho following
statement Turf. Farm aud Home speaks
Shy the book"
Henry Clay WIS foalcd Ia 1897. and
was bred by George NJ Patchen Of
Brooklyn. aud was owned by many diff
fcrcnt parties, always In New York. be-.
ing owned the late years of his life by
General Nadswurth u Gcncso1. and hr
died In 1907 liz was got ~ Andrew
Jackson. and his dam was trotting
marc known as Surry, and sho was ,siid
10 be Canadian, with an untrnrcd pcdi.
gree. but tho Year Books contradict this
by saying Tint she came from surry, y.
IL. un what information we DO not
know, but all agrno upon the fnct that
her breeding is unknown.
Andrew jackson. the sire ~ Henry
Clay, was fualcd In 1897. and was by
Young Bashaw. from black pacing
mare Of unknown blood. and Young Bi.
shaw wns by GRAND Bashaw, out uf
Pearl by First Consul, grnnddam by i'm.
ported Messenger.
GRIND B1shnw was Barb and was
imported from Tripoli Ia 1870. Tho cir.
sumtanco, % his being sent ~ this com.
try are ms follows In 1915 Hon Rich.
ard b. Jones. then United States consul
at Tripoli, bad loaned some Danish OH.
GERS q valuable Arabian horse. which by
accident they killed On the following
morning Mr. Jones found Grand Bashaw
In his stable sent 10 replace the lot
Arab The offer ~ compensation was
declined, but ut the suggestion Of Mr.
Morgan, then residing with him. Grand
Bashnw was bought and imported sub.
scquently 10 the United States. He was
described ~ Barb " tho purcst lineage
black. with small star aud snip. and
very beautiful lilo died In Pennsylvania
Ia 1916.
From Grand Baslnw, through Young
Bashaw, descended the formerly well
known BiShaw family. and through An.
drew jackson. sun u Young Bashnw,
amo L1ng Island Black Hawk. the
founder oi famous tr1t,ing family,
entirely distinct and separate from tho
famous Vermont Blnck HnwlS family.
II will tins b. seen that the CLAWS,
the Long Island Black Hawks aud the
Patchon families, the latter being found
ed by George ". Patchcn. .28i, by
Cassius ", Clay, sln ~ Henry Clay.
all descended from the imported horse
Grand Ba.hnw, 10 tho Mambrino Chief
and lIamblotonian families did from
imported Messenger. the former being u
pure Barb from Tsipoli, and tho latter
thoroughbred from England, aud that
their origin IL entirely separate aud dis.
tinct, and although the blood Inns In
later generations bocn mingled aud IN.
torninglcl the iir,t prominent instance
WIS probably when Pearl, by Firt Con.
sul, Out uf - marc by imported Mrsscu.
ger, was bred 20 Grand Bashuw, ~
whose worth US progCuiiUr we have
given some intimntion above
Later instances ~ the success Of this
line of breeding arc 10 be- found In Elcc.
tionecr, sun of iigmhlctouiau dam
Grcon Mountain Maid, by Harry Clay,
descendant Of Henry Clay. while We
do not care Ia express amy opinion pn
tho merits ~ tho controversy, We may
b. allowed to romarl IN passing that
II IL claimed hy many md has generally
been conceded In the records Tor tho past
few year, that Dolly Spmker. tho
dam Of George wilkes, was by Henry
CLAY.
Henry Clay was coal black horse
about 1913 hands high, with rather u
short nccE. His head was rather large
and his mu2aln EIuarc, but iiuo In out
line, and his eyo was large, pleasant and
full ~ fire In the forehead was - re-.
Inarknblo white crescent, very perfect.
the line Of which extended up aud down
that Is, ons hoTn above the eyes, the
other below His eIr were rather abort.
but widu apart. active and ever on tho
uleFt The neck was sot on flne Oblquo
shoulders. with elbows well out from
the chest, arms lppg and large, short