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History in brief of "Leopard" and "Linden," General Grant's Arabian stallions, : presented to him by the sultan of Turkey in 1879Also their sons "General Beale," "Hegira," and "Islam," bred by Randolph HuntingtonAlso reference to the celebrated stallion "Henry Clay." . •?>a 3 Fro-* sa „o-o- £ a: era -j B K> V H S. p oS-3 en !*> cr ^ ES-i ^7 1 *n >B s? 3-H c u —.3- P I3 r ?^ CO c . 6o OLD HENRY CLAY. OLD HENRY CLAY. The likeness of the stallion Henry Clay, known as Colonel WilliamW. Wadsworths Henry Clay for many years, but of late as Old HenryClay, is the only correct picture of th
History in brief of "Leopard" and "Linden," General Grant's Arabian stallions, : presented to him by the sultan of Turkey in 1879Also their sons "General Beale," "Hegira," and "Islam," bred by Randolph HuntingtonAlso reference to the celebrated stallion "Henry Clay." . •?>a 3 Fro-* sa „o-o- £ a: era -j B K> V H S. p oS-3 en !*> cr ^ ES-i ^7 1 *n >B s? 3-H c u —.3- P I3 r ?^ CO c . 6o OLD HENRY CLAY. OLD HENRY CLAY. The likeness of the stallion Henry Clay, known as Colonel WilliamW. Wadsworths Henry Clay for many years, but of late as Old HenryClay, is the only correct picture of the horse presented to the publiceye. Henry Clay was Arabian-bred, strongly so ; possessing the build,disposition, and constitution of the Arab. His ears were fine and small,forehead full and broad, jowls deep, wide between, and thin ; eyes largeand prominent, muzzle small, with thin lips, and large thin limbs were fine, yet powerful; the osselets small, as in the Ara-bian ; while his very handsome feet were tough enough to go for alltime barefoot, a peculiarity of the Arab. He was the founder of theentire family of Clay horses, and his purity of blood was so great asto stamp his high physical qualities with instincts to a positiveness,outlasting that of all other families to d
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