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had a nose that would " go in a pint pot," a neat head, 

 tine ears, and a large, intelligent, though wicked eye. 

 This little mare is reputed to be a remarkable road- 

 ster, and a former owner declares that he once drove 

 her from Gardiner to Phillips, Maine, in five hours 

 and a half. The distance is fifty-five miles. The dam 

 of her grandsire was a half-bred Arab, and the foal at 

 her side when I saw them showed even more distinctly 

 than its mother the Arab strain in its ancestry. 



The dam of the famous Flora Temple was by a 

 "spotted Arabian horse." Leopard Rose, a spotted 

 mare that made a sensation on the track in 1889 and 

 1890, winning many races, and getting a record of 

 2.15^, was by Killbuck Tom, and he by a circus 

 horse said to be of Arab descent. Numerous like 

 instances might be cited. Of course, no pure Arabian 

 was ever "spotted," but I am inclined to think that 

 some at least of the animals thus described had 

 Arabian blood in their veins. Still, the point is 

 doubtful. 



One of the best roadsters in ?.Iaine of recent years 

 was a mare descended from " Royal Tar," a mysterious 

 white stallion who is said to have swum ashore from 

 a vessel wrecked near Eggemoggin Reach, and who 

 not improbably was of Eastern birth. 



The grandam of this roadster is described as an 

 "ordinary" black mare, and her sire was Tom Knox, 

 a black horse : but she, like her dam, inherited the 

 white color of her grandsire, Royal Tar. She was 

 once driven eighty-seven miles in a day of fourteen 

 hours, hauling two people in a top buggy, doing the 

 last thirty-six miles in four hours, and winding up 

 with a race of some miles down the road from Bucks- 



