. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. No. 4. NO 508 MONTGOMERY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, â cOJij'ttirJ'-^v â THE GRAND MOORâBy the Moor, his dam Kate Taber, by Mambrino Patchen OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Owned by NEWLAND & PUMYEA, The Moors have earned high fame on the trotting tracks of California. Earned is the proper title, as real work has been done to accomplish what they have performed. This, too, has been accomplished in shorter time than families usually acquire distinction, and in sixteen years from the date when the founder was foaled there have been two gen
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. No. 4. NO 508 MONTGOMERY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, â cOJij'ttirJ'-^v â THE GRAND MOORâBy the Moor, his dam Kate Taber, by Mambrino Patchen OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Owned by NEWLAND & PUMYEA, The Moors have earned high fame on the trotting tracks of California. Earned is the proper title, as real work has been done to accomplish what they have performed. This, too, has been accomplished in shorter time than families usually acquire distinction, and in sixteen years from the date when the founder was foaled there have been two generations of celebrities. This is properly regarded as being the best test of "potency," and the faculty of transmitting the desired qualities, as a family characteristic, is what the breeder most anxiously desires. It is apparent that there must be more definite gnides than the original family name, although the remote ancestry of right figures in the calculation, and it is no small thing to be- long to the tribe from which The Moor sprang. The Clays have held a high place in trotting annals, and from the time when Henry Clay first gave the distinctive appellation until the present day the blood has been highly prized. But this celebrity has so increased the numbers of the sept that the title has become somewhat indefinite, in order to give a clearer conception of the blood. Thus, in California are two well-known branches of the Clay family, viz., the Patchens, and that which is now the subject of this article. Both trace on the paternal side to Cassius M. Clay. The line of descent from this horse, acknowledged to be one of the greatest trot- ting stallions of his day, is through his son, Neave's Cassius SI. Clay. This horse was the sire of Clay Pilot, the sire of The Moor. Cassius M. Clay was by Henry Clay, and his dam was Jersey Kate, an excellent road mare, and said to be by Mambrino, the sire of Abdallah. She was also the dam of John Anderson, who was one of th
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