GENERAL KNOX. 611 



haps two inches higher; very compactly built; has a short thigh, only 

 20 inches in length, and trots very close and even behind; he also has 

 a short forearm ; limbs heavy and strong. His dam was by Smith's 

 Hambletonian, son of Harris' Hambletonian, his grandam by Harris' 

 Hambletonian. Thus it will appear that Gen. Knox runs to Harris' 

 Hambletonian four times, to Smith's Hambletonian twice, and to 

 imported Bellfounder twice, once to Blackhawk, once to Justin Mor- 

 gan and Sherman. He can scarcely be called a Morgan, and has 

 certainly none of the characteristics of the family. He is a coarse 

 looking horse, having the appearance of a cross between the Mes- 

 senger and the Canadian, except that the mane and tail do not indi- 

 cate the peculiar coarseness of the Canadian. He has a ewe neck, 

 and no crest, or rather, as has been said by one writer, the crest is on 

 the under side of it; his jowl is deej) and very heavy. His appear- 

 ance does not speak out clearly of the excellences he contains. He 

 has none of the beauty and style which characterized the Morgans 

 •of the early day, and is far removed from the handsome Black- 

 hawks. He is as strong in the blood of Messenger, all coming 

 through Harris' Hambletonian, as any horse in America. 



Gen. Knox is owned by H. N. Smith, Esq., at the Fashion Stud 

 Farm, Trenton, New Jersey, and has spent nearly all of his days prior 

 to 1872 in the State of Maine. A lucky State to have held one such 

 sire, for he has been a most remarkable one. He should not be called 

 a Morgan, and should stand to-day to the credit of the Green Moun- 

 tain sire, Harris' Hambletonian, for such in reality he is, and we 

 have produced no stallion in our day which can surpass him. He 

 lived so far ofi" down East and in such an obscure place that we 

 scarcely heard of him until about the time he left that State. That 

 Lis true status, as a sire, may be set forth in these pages, I avail 

 myself of a very intelligent article in Wallace's 3fonthly^ from a 

 writer whom I have not the pleasure of knowing, and make the fol- 

 lowing extract: 



Knox is a well-bred horse, and was alwaj^s a good, square, level-headed 

 trotter. At sixteen years of age, iu 1871, he was bought by Mr. Smith, tlirough 

 Yiv. Nodine, as a trotter, he having no idea then of breeding him. Nodine 

 took him to Prospect Park in July, just before starting for Buffalo, where he 

 was entered in the 2:30 class. After being there a short time, Mr. Smith was 

 sent for to see him take a mile and repeat. He could not go, so sent James 

 B. Bach and Mr. Salters to time him. The first mile was trotted in 2:25)^, 

 repeated with perfect ease in 2:24. He then went to Buffalo, where the asso- 

 elation gave him the best stall at the track, a new one. He slipped on the 

 fresh planking, wrenching one of his forward legs, and was uuable to start in 



