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had a nose that would “go in a pint pot,” a neat head, 
fine ears, and a large, intelligent, though wicked eye. 
This little mare is reputed to be a remarkable road- 
ster, and a former owner declares that he once drove 
her from Gardiner to Phillips, Maine, in five hours 
anda half. The distance is fifty-five miles. The dam 
of her grandsire was a half-bred Arab, and the foal at 
her side when I saw them showed even more distinctly 
than its mother the Arab strain in its ancestry. 
The dam of the famous Flora Temple was by a 
“spotted Arabian horse.” Leopard Rose, a spotted 
mare that made a sensation on the track in 1889 and 
1890, winning many races, and getting arecord of 
2.151, was by Killbuck Tom, and he by a circus 
horse said to be of Arab descent. Numerous like 
instances might be cited. Of course, no pure Arabian 
was ever “spotted,” but I am inclined to think that 
some at least of the animals thus described had 
Arabian blood in their veins. Still, the point is 
doubtful. 
One of the best roadsters in Maine of recent years 
was a mare descended from “ Royal Tar,” a mysterious 
white stallion who is said to have swum ashore from 
a vessel wrecked near Eggemoggin Reach, and who 
not improbably was of Eastern birth. 
The grandam of this roadster is described as an 
“ordinary ” black mare, and her sire was Tom Knox, 
a black horse; but she, Jike her dam, inherited the 
white color of her grandsire, Royal Tar. She was 
once driven eighty-seven miles in a day of fourteen 
hours, hauling two people in a top buggy, doing the 
last thirty-six miles in four hours, and winding up 
with a race of some miles down the road from Bucks- 
