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Shepherd F, Knapp was larger than his half-brother, 
Flying Eaton, but much like him in action and in 
character. He was exported to England in 1864. 
Afterward he was sent to France, where he trotted a 
race of two and a half miles and defeated another 
American-bred horse. The time was 6.14, or a little 
better than at the rate of a mile in 2.30. Shepherd 
F. Knapp sired Capucine, the fastest, gamiest trotter 
ever bred on the Continent, and it is said that his 
blood has also improved the breed of French coach 
horses. It is certain that in England, whither Shep- 
herd F. Knapp was soon returned, his descendants 
and those of his son Washington are among the best 
hackneys ever raised there, being noted for their 
beauty and quality, as well as for their speed. It is 
not unlikely that among the. very hackneys recently 
imported to this country are some that have descended 
from the little gray mare that used to trot so gallantly 
over the steep hills of Franklin County, Maine. 
The last of the three families which I have men- 
tioned as descending from the old Eaton horse, crossed 
with Morgan mares, is that of Troublesome.! This 
horse never attained more than a local reputation, and 
his colts had the common defect, inherited from him, 
of hitting their fore legs; but his roading qualities 
were such as to entitle him to mention along with 
Flying Eaton and Shepherd F. Knapp. Troublesome 
was a handsome, round-bodied bay horse, of great 
style and spirit. He weighed about eleven hundred 
pounds, and was very speedy. His knee action, like 
1 Troublesome was sired by the Norton horse, and he by the 
Eaton horse, out of a Morgan mare. The Norton horse was one 
of the handsomest horses ever raised in Maine. 
