"32 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
From many circumstances it would seem that he may 
have been by Duroc, son of imp. Diomed. Duroc died in 
1825 on Long Island, where he had been owned for many 
years, and this horse, Young Duroc, was brought to 
Maine in say, 1828 or 29, a fact which leaves nothing 
antagonistic in the way of dates. 
Again, like the get of Duroc, he was a fast running 
horse, and will be well remembered even now by many 
who saw himrun fifty years ago on the plains at Turner, 
Westbrook, Norridgewock and other points throughout 
the State. Asa sire, I have heard many men say that his 
get were greatly inclined to imperfect limbs, showing 
marked tendency to curb, ringbone and spavin. This was 
eminently characteristic of the get of Duroc himself. 
But theorize as we may, his pedigree must always remain 
as it is at present, unknown. This horse was the sire of 
the Eben Young mare that produced Rising Sun. Asa 
trotter Rising Sun was untrained, he was a roadster of 
great courage, a fast walker, but when urged to his fastest 
was inclined to single-foot. It is the opinion now of 
those best qualified to judge, who knew him best, that 
with the present skillful methods of training, combined 
with a judicious use of toe-weights, he might have earned 
a record unsurpassed by any of his descendants. 
As a sire of 2.30 horses Rising Sun appears but once, in 
connection with that of his son, Nabocklish, the Never 
Mind of Simpson’s ‘‘Horse Portraiture,” as follows: 
Nabocklish, blk g, by Rising Sun................+.-2.294 
It seems as though the owners of the descendants of 
Rising Sun had a marked partiality for the name of 
Emperor, as two Emperors appear in the 2.30 list as 
follows: 
Emperor, b g by Rollins Horse, son of Rising Sun... .2.30 
Emperor, blk h by Newman Horse, son of Rollins Horse, 
by Rising Sun........ # iipieie'sislacte eo peaeieaee eee ee ee oo 2298 
Besides the above we have :— 
