Old Henry Clay
| Old Henry Clay | |
| Father: | Andrew Jackson |
| Mother: | Lady Surrey (?) |
| Mother, father: | |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1837 |
| Year of death: | 1867 |
| Country: | United States |
| Colour: | Black |
Old Henry Clay (* 1837 on Long Island ; † spring 1867 in Lodi (New York) ) was a trotting racehorse and breeding stallion.
Life
Old Henry Clay is often referred to as the forefather of the American trotting horse or "America's National Thoroughbred Trotting Horse" and played an important role in the development of the Americo-Arabs . It was bought by Colonel William W. Wadsworth, who lived in Livingston County (New York) and was initially used in front of the car. Randolph Huntington , among others, valued his strength and perseverance . Old Henry Clay was used as a breeding stallion in his later years and passed on his positive traits. In old age he went blind.
Clay line
After the horse's death, Huntington sold all his horses from other bloodlines and from 1877 tried to buy as many of Old Henry Clay's offspring as possible. The bloodline was then considered the best and most wanted in the country. The Americo-Arabs were created by crossing Arab horses with descendants of Old Henry Clay.
Huntington's breeding began with six daughters by Old Henry Clay, three of whom were paired with the Arabian stallions Leopard and Linden Tree . The results were good, and Huntington's was soon to own an extensive population of Clay-Arabs, as he called these horses. In 1888 he bought the mare Naomi, who was in England. An attempt to use the stallion Kismet also failed: Huntington was able to rent Kismet for a price of 20,000 dollars and have it transported from England to America, but the animal died of pneumonia shortly after its arrival.
After an employee embezzled around $ 100,000, Huntington ran into financial difficulties. At an auction in New York in February 1894, Huntington had to put 85 horses, most of them clay Arabs, up for auction. They were sold at an average price of $ 1,800 per animal.
Whereabouts
In 1881, Old Henry Clay's remains were exhumed and dissected at the Ward's Natural Science Establishment. Randolph Huntington had it given to the US National Museum on April 22, 1881 by Erastus Corning and Henry C. Jewett. Parts of this skeleton, including the lower jaw, have been preserved and are now in the Smithsonian Museum Support Center.
literature
- Randolph Huntington, History in Brief of "Leopard" and "Linden." General Grant's Arabian Stallions. Presented to Him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879. Also Their Sons "General Beale," "Hegira," and "Islan," Bred by Randolph Huntington. Also References to the Celebrated Stallion "Henry Clay." , JB Lippincott Company 1885, online ( Memento of July 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ or General James Wadsworth, cf. Hamilton Busbey, The Trotting and Pacing Horse in America , Maclachan Bell Press 2008, ISBN 1-408-65074-6 , p. 216
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/famehors.htm
- ↑ http://www.horseracing.com/horses/old-henry-clay/
