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THE MORGAN HORSE 



KNOX (PALMER'S) 2 :31 



Dark brown, small star, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1865; bred 

 by M. G. Palmer, Portland, Me. ; got by Gen. Knox : dam bay, bred by 

 Martin Smith, Cornville, Me., got by Robinson Horse, son of Bucephalus ; 

 2d dam brown, bred by Mr. Smith, Cornville, Me. Sold, about 1884, and went 

 West; owned by Banks & Hilt, Chicago, who sold, 1888, to T. W. W. 

 Sunman, Spades, Ind. " Palmer Knox, with his fine size, beautiful propor- 

 tions and astonishing muscular development, realizes our ideal of a fast and 

 lasting trotter. At the Maine State fair in 1873, at Bangor, he won the three- 

 minute race in a field of ten horses, in straight heats, best time 2 -.40. The 

 next day he won the race for horses that never beat 2 148, in a field of seven. 

 The next week at Portland, he won the ist premium on 

 two successive days ". Noted Maine Horses. 



BAYARD KNOX 



Bay; foaled 1874; bred by A. W. Hewes, Saco, Me.; got by Palmer's 

 Knox, son of Gen. Knox : dam said to be by John O'Gaunt. Owned by 

 Stephen Gowen, Biddeford, Me. 



GEN WEAVER 



Bay, 1 6 hands; foaled 1880; bred by James Edgecomb, Hiram, Me.; 

 got by Bayard Knox, son of Palmer's Knox : dam Patchen Maid, bay, foaled 

 1859, bred by Horace Edsall, Hamburg, N. J., got by George M. Patchen, 

 son of Cassius M. Clay ; 2d dam said to be by Abdallah ; and 3d dam a fast 

 pacing mare bred by Frank Hamilton, Hamburg, N. J. Sold to Hiram B. 

 Knight, Saco, Me.; James M. Floyd, Portland, Me., 1881. Said to have 

 shown halves in i :io, but was injured and taken off the turf. Patchen Maid 

 was also dam of Fleetwing, by Hambletonian, dam of Stamboul 2 115, and 

 Ruby 2 



Black, 15 



BEN HAMPTON 



1^ hands, 1050 pounds ; foaled June 14, 1865; said to be by 

 Gen. Knox ; and dam by Witherell, son of Winthrop Messenger. Owned by 

 Enoch Weston, Madison, Me. 



DON FULANO 



Black, tan muzzle and flanks; foaled 1863; bred by H. I. Robinson, 

 Portland, Me. ; got by Gen. Knox : dam known as the Robinson mare, said 

 to have come from Canada. Owned in Weymouth, Mass. 



