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THE MORGAN HORSE. 



GEN. KNOX (SLASHER) 2 

 was bred by David Heustis, Bridport, Vt., and foaled June, 



Total 6 ; 2 in 2 130 ; 6 race winners. 



Races won, 21. Races lost, 63. Total races, 84. 



Sires: Gen. Knox, 16; Blind Tom, 3. 



Sire from Daughter: Leon, 2. 



Dams of Badger Boy 2 :2g, Brown Dick 2 :29%- 



Second dams of Atlas (?) 2:29%, Sentry (?) 2:25. 



KNOX 

 Gen. Knox 



1855. He was black with star and snip, nose, flanks and stifles brownish, 15^ 

 hands and weighed 1050 pounds. He was got by Vermont Hero, son of 

 Sherman Black Hawk. His dam was a large, good-fashioned bay mare, bred 

 by Oliver S. Lapham, Shoreham, Vt., got by Searcher, son of Barney Henry ; 

 2d dam light bay with star and white ankles behind, a fast quarter mare, 

 traded for when five, about 1840, by Mr. Lapham of Wm. W. Hunsdon, Shore- 

 ham, Vt., who bought her of Samuel Tichenor, Bridport, Vt., whose son, Rollin 

 M., traded a pair of oxen for her with Clint. Gage, Panton, Vt. Mr. Tichenor 

 represented that she was got by a Morgan horse, from a Post Boy mare. She 

 was a fast runner. Mr. Hunsdon, her former owner, now of Ticonderoga, N. 

 Y., is our informant. The statement that she was by Hill's Sir Charles, son 

 of Duroc is entirely without foundation. 



Gen. Knox was sold to D. A. Bennett of Bridport, Vt. ; to Denny 

 & Bush, Shoreham, Vt., January, 1857; to Col. T. S. Lang, Vassalboro, 

 Me., for $1000, January, 1859 ; to Henry N. Smith, Trenton, N. J., 

 1872, for $10,000. He was kept at Fordham, N. Y., in 1872, and 

 after that at the Fashion Stud Farm, Trenton, until his death, July 29, 1887. 

 He was a plain but compactly-made horse, and got much elegant as well as 

 fast stock. He was the winner of six races, and we believe was never beaten 

 on the turf. He had a record of 2 131^, but had shown a trial in 2 124. He 

 was used in the stud most of his life, and while in Maine did a very large 

 business. After passing to Mr. Smith he covered comparatively few mares. 



We quote the following from an article on Gen. Knox, written by Col. 

 Lang, his then owner, and published in the " Maine Farmer ", August, 1870 : 



He had small, well-formed ears, broad head between the eyes, tapering to 

 a thin, well-defined nose, rather thick neck, excellent fore leg well under the 

 body, hind leg quite remarkable for development of hock muscle which he 

 transmits to many of his colts hock and knee joints well defined. The feet 

 are perfect, the shell of unusual thickness and toughness, the body round 

 and compact, the back short, and the loin as strong as can be found. I may 

 add that in all his sweating and working he has never shown the first symp- 

 tom of scratches or foul blood ; has never cut a hair upon his fore-feet in 

 trotting or breaking. His temper is always good, always cheerful and full 

 of spirits and ambition, and never nervous at the most exciting sights and 



