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Drew, then of Exeter, Maine, who kept him all his life. The 

 story of his supposed sire was one of those weakly devised fictions, 

 .so common in that day, and especially where the Canadian border 

 could be made effective in rounding it out. To show that the 

 mysterious colt that became the sire of Drew Horse was "thor- 

 oughbred/' the stereotyped "British Army officer" is made 

 available, for the hundredth time, as having brought a mare 

 from England in foal to a thoroughbred horse, the foal was 

 dropped and at three years old he was traded by the aforesaid 

 "officer" to the party that brought the colt to Maine. Unfor- 

 tunately for the story, the party who made the trade and the 

 ;story had a bad memory, an,d sometimes he located the trade at 

 St. Johns and sometimes at Fredericton, New Brunswick. But 

 the fiction served its generation and was not exposed till long 

 after the Drew Horse was dead. The facts in the matter seem 

 to be simply these: a stallion colt was running in a pasture ad- 

 joining Mr. Drew's pasture, and that colt got over the fence, was 

 found with Mr. Drew's mare, and in due time she dropped the 

 colt known as the "Drew Horse." The fence-breaker was soon 

 .after made a gelding and sold, and nothing is known of him, 

 either before or after this escapade. The dam of .the Drew 

 Horse was a bay mare about fifteen and one-half hands high, 

 foaled about 1836, and bred by Mark Pease, of Jackson, Maine. 

 Her sire was called Sir Henry and was represented to be by a son 

 of American Eclipse, that was taken to Maine from Connecticut 

 by Dr. Brewster and sold to General F. W. Lander. She was 

 known as Grace Darling and afterward as Boston Girl. She was 

 on the turf and was quite a trotter, and it is claimed she made a 

 record of 2:37, and her dam was Lady Jane by Winthrop Mes- 

 .senger. While I don't know what the inheritance of this horse 

 was on the side of his sire, I do know that he had a trotting 

 inheritance on the side of his dam. He lived till 1866 and then 

 had to be destroyed on account of a broken leg. 



This horse was never trained, and it is not known what he 

 might have been able to do as a trotter. He put two of his sons 

 in the 2:30 list, Dirigo and General McClellan. Of his sons, two 

 put five trotters and three pacers in the list, and of his daughters 

 left six representatives there. Besides these he left a number of 

 others with records a little short of the limit of speed, and many 

 without records that were fast and very game roadsters. 



DIRIGO, at first called George B. McClellan, under which name 



