36 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
doubtedly was the case with Golddust. The blood of 
Messenger received such’ modification by the road ele- 
ments found in these Morgan strains as to give it the true 
character of trotting blood, and to eliminate all racing in- 
clination from it. The germ once planted would come 
out, and the result in Winthrop Morrill, is a trottting sire 
of remarkable success. He stands side by side with Kuox 
-and Lambert, but is more nearly a Morgan than either of 
them.” 
The following is the pedigree of Winthrop Morrill, as it 
appears in the American Pe Register, Vol. as pub- 
lished in 1874: 
WinTHROP MorRILL (late SLASHER), b. h., foaled 1855; 
got by Young Morrill (Perkins’) ; dam by the Huck- 
ins Horse, son of Royal Morgan,—known as the 
Crane Horse, Steele Horse, and Morgan Rattler; g. d. 
by Morgan Eagle; g. g. d. by Bulrush; g. g. g. d. by 
old Carson, son of Quicksilver. Bred by Rodney 
Bradford, Barre, Vt.; sold, before three years old, to 
Mr. Town, and kept under the name of Slasher, till 
1860, when he was sold to Leonard T. Tucker; in 
‘Sune: 1861, to H. B. Varrill, Laconia, N. H.; paceed 
through two or three hands to David Blanchard, Bos- 
ton; sold to Mr. Savage, Waterville, Me.; then, in 
1863, to Mr. Garland of Skowhegan; in 1864, to Chas. 
J. Jackson uf Winthrop, who gave him his present 
‘ . name; now owned by T.. B. Willfams, Boston, Mass. 
Winthrop Morrill was afterwards sold to John F. Mills 
of Boston and returned to Maine and stood several sea- 
sons in Hartland, was finally purchased by B. F. Fair- 
banks of Winthrop, where the horse finally died. He has 
to his credit nine in the 2.30 list. Honest Harry, 2.224, 
Ben Morrill, 2.27, Ed. Getchell, 2.27, Glengarry, 2.27, 
Sam Curtis, 2.28, John Morrill, 2.283, J. G. Morrill, 2.29, 
Fleetwood, 2.29 and Baby Boy 2.30; with a sufficient 
number between 2.40 and 2.80, to make a remarkable 
