BL2AGK • KNOX. 



A BLACK STALLION with white snip on nose; four years old; 

 stands 15^ hands high; weighs about 1,000 lbs; foaled June, 1883. 

 Sired by Barnes Knox of St. Johns. Second sire, Sanders Knox ; 

 third sire. General Knox, sire of Lady Maud, 2.18^, Camors, 2.19^, 

 Independence, (double, 2.16J2.) A grand-daughter brought Pilot 

 Knox, 2.19^, winner of the stallion race at Mystic Park, 1885, in 

 three straight heats, beating three choicely bred Kentucky horses. 



First dam. Black Bessie, a very rapid road mare of great endur- 

 ance. Second dam by " Blackhawk Morgan," got by "Vermont 

 Morgan," and he by Billy Root. Third dam, Jane Fogarty, a race- 

 horse of good form, nearly a thorough-bred. Of the great-grandsons 

 of Vermont Blackhawk, the list of sires shows General Knox is the 

 best by 10 to i. As a progenitor of 2.20 trotters, he out-ranks any 

 other stallion that ever stood in New England. Black Knox is sound, 

 handsome, possessing a kind disposition, and has a fine, easy, natural 

 trotting gait. He will be kept strictly foi' stock purposes. He took 

 First Premium at Worcester North Fair as a 3 year old. 



Terms, $15.00, with privilege of free return next season of such 

 mares as do not prove in foal. 



LYMAN C. ALBEE, 



Fairlawn Stock Farm. Fitchburg, Mass. 



