34 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
WINTHROP MORRILL, 373. 
'. Winthrop Morrill has been well described by one who 
knew him well, as follows: 
“Bright bay horse with dark points, star, off hind ankle 
white; full mane and tail; height about 154 hands; 
weight, 1,000 pounds; head, after the Morgan type, clean 
and intelligent; neck, thin, long, blood-like, and carried 
in good style. Shoulders sloping and atrong; chest 
deep; back stout and beautiful in contour from 
withers to haunches; barrel, round and well ribbed back ; 
tail finely set on and well carried; limbs rather light in 
bone, but well muscled; hind pasterns very straight; 
upper bone of the forearm let down low to the knee; 
cannon-bone short; feet blue, tough and excellent. 
Foaled, 1855. 
Placed in training when from three to four years old, 
he devoloped wonderful speed asa trotter, and was en- 
tered in a race at Providence, R. 1. Too severe work for 
a youngster caused him to suddenly shift from a trot to 4 
pace. Repeated attempts failing to correct the evil he 
was traded to ajockey and went to Maine, where he 
passed from one to another at a mere pittance in price, 
finally bringing up ina peddler’s cart. While in this 
menial capacity, he sired the chestnut gelding Fleetwood, 
record, 2.29. Purchased by Geo. C. Goodale, then of 
Winthrop, Me., for ninety dollars, he was used for 
general farm work for a season. and finally soldto Messrs. 
Charles G. Jackson and Jos. G. Rounds, and went into 
the stud at Winthrop. In Mr. Goodale’s possession he 
