378 



THE MORGAN HORSE 



Races won, 14. Races lost, 23. Total races, 37. 



DR. FRANKLIN 2 : 31 



Black with brown flanks and muzzle, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 

 1871 ; bred by Peter Letourneau, West Waterville, Me. ; got by Gen. Knox : 

 dam Lady Bird, dark bay, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled June 9, 1865, bred 

 by Alanson Perry, Winthrop, Me., got by Winthrop Morrill ; 2d dam Jane, 

 black, about 14^ hands, 900 pounds, of. much power, brought from Canada 

 to Gardiner, Me., breeding unknown. Sold to E. J. Lawrence, Somerset 

 Mills, Me.; C. P. Whitney, Caribou, Me., January, 1888. Said to have re- 

 ceived twelve ist premiums at State and county fairs, and to have trotted 

 trials in about 2 :2i. 



Total, ii ; i in 2:30; 9 race-winners. 



Races won, 29. Races lost, 95. Total races, 124. 



LAWRENCE 2 : 



Brown, 16 hands, noo pounds; foaled 1882; bred by E. S. Foster & 

 Son, Canaan, Me. ; got by Dr. Franklin, son of Gen. Knox : dam bay, bred 

 by E. S. Foster & Son, got by Morrill Champion, son of Young Morrill; 2d 

 dam bay, bred by A. H. Merrill, Pishon's Ferry, Me., got by Merrow Horse, 

 son of Witherell. Owned by E. J. Lawrence, Fairfield, Me. Kept at 

 Somerset Mills, Me., 1885-7-8. When two won a race at Waterville, Me., 

 in 2 :5i. Won the State of Maine colt stakes, 1885 ; also won the three-year- 

 old races at State fair and Hartland same year, getting a record of 2 142^. 

 At Fairfield, October 8, 1886, he defeated a large field of the best Maine 

 horses, trotting the third heat in 2 13 2^. At Topsham the next week he got 

 a record of 2 130^. At Fairfield, August 20, 1887, he won a race ; best time, 

 2 129^. At Topsham, in October, 1887, he won a race, winning the third, 

 sixth and seventh heats over some of the best Maine horses . Thompson. 



WINTHROP KNOX (DR. FRANKLIN JR) 

 Dark brown, small star, 15^ hands, 1:050 pounds ; foaled 1882; bred 



