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withdraw Knox entirely from the track, feeling that the 
friends of the Drew stock having shown their readiness 
to meet Knox, could not complain at my decision. Knox 
has not trotted since, except in August, 1866, a few days 
before I left for Europe, fearing that I might never see 
the horse again, I requested Mr. Palmer to drive him a 
half mile over the usual exercise ground where he had 
been trained at speed. Although the horse was then in 
service, this was done in the presence of many spectators, 
without a break in the 1.12. 
Since my departure for Europe in 1866, the horse has 
not been trotted in public. Although fitted partially in 
the fall of 1869 te try his speed at the New England Fair, 
at Portland, he was accidentally lamed by a stroke in his 
fore ankle, and unable to appear inarace. Since April 
of the present year his services have been called for each 
day, and will be an increase upon any year’s service. * 
I have no desire in writing this history’ of Knox to 
place him in any false light before the public interested 
in horses, or to detract one atom from the great value and 
admiration due to the many splendid horses in the stud in 
Maine for ten years past or at present. Not oneof them 
that does not possess traits which I wish I could add to 
the Knox and his good points. The good sense of the 
reader must see, that the good points united and fixed by 
coupling through several generations, will bring Maine 
out a winner. 
This completes the history of Gen. Knox up to the close 
of theseason of 1870. In 1871, Mr. Nodine, of New 
York,. bought Gen. Knox for Mr. Smith, of the Fashion 
Stud Farm, Trenton, N. J., for the sum of ten thousand 
dollars. The horse was not purchased—so says a writer 
in Wallace’s Monthly—for breeding purposes, but as a 
trotter. Mr. Nodine took him to Prospect Park in July, 
just before starting for Buffalo, where he was entered in 
the 2.30 class. After being there a short time, Mr. Smith 
