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Title: Sketches, historical and descriptive, of noted Maine horses, past and present, their ancestors and descendants
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thompson, J. W. (John Wallace), b. 1844
Subjects: Horses Horses
Publisher: Canton, Me. : The Author
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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d and well ribbed back;tail finely set on and well carried; limbs rather light inbone, but well muscled; hind pasterns very straight;upper bone of the forearm let down low to the knee;cannon-bone short; feet blue, tough and excellent.Foaled, 1855. Placed in training when from three to four years old,he devoloped wonderful speed as a trotter, and was en-tered in a race at Providence, R. I. Too severe work fora youngster caused him to suddenly shift from a trot to apace. Repeated attempts failing to correct the evil hewas traded to a jockey and went to Maine, where hepassed from one to another at a mere pittance in price,finally bringing up in a peddlers cart. While in thismenial capacity, he sired the chestnut gelding Fleetwood,record, 2.29. Purchased by Geo. C. Goodale, then ofWinthrop, Me., for ninety dollars, he was used forgeneral farm work for a season and finally sold to Messrs.Charles G. Jackson and Jos. G. Rounds, and went intothe stud at Winthrop. In Mr. Goodales possession he
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WiNTHROP Morrill. 373. NOTED MAINE HORSES. 35 was driven a carefully measured mile on Winthrop pond,two men to a sleigh, without a break in 2.32, the lastquarter in the remarkable time of 33 seconds or a 2.12gait, and was not up to his speed until the half mile waspassed. He paced at that time, but next season shifted,and has been a square trotter since. His success in thestud, always with common hard-worked farmers mares(Gen. Knox and Drew always taking the best) is a mat-ter of public record. At the close of the season of 1877he stood number five on the list of sires of horsestrotting in 2.30 or better. Said list including allwhich have trotted in that time since the first record inthis country, viz: Hambletonian, 27 representatives;Volunteer, 16 representatives; Blue Bull, 10 representa-tives; Daniel Lambert, 9 representatives; Winthrop Mor-rill, 7 representatives. His get are uniformly of great courage, excellent trot-ting action, and have an appearance of higher breedingthan woulsketcheshistoric87thom

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