26 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
rest, won his race and was bound home. I never saw 
him in stich fine condition and spirits as while at Spring- 
field, and after a close examination by the committee, he 
' was awarded the first stock premium, as well as for speed. 
Whether the horse was looked upon by judges as a trotter 
the reader must judge, when I say that, at a public table, 
four prominent horsemen of New England publicly of- 
fered me $15,000, $20,000, $25,000 and $30,000 for him 
the evening after the race. If Knox was worth that for 
' Massachusetts or New York, he was worth it for Maine, 
therefore I brought him home; and when I see such 
animals as the Gilbreth Knox, Gen. Logan, or the Little- 
field Horse, Black Sultan, Gen. Sherman, Plato, Lexing- 
ton, Col. Knox, Wyers Horse, Tom Knox, Skowhegan 
Boy, Lawrence Horse, Hoe’s, Larkin’s, T. 8. Lang, Col. 
Lang, Nell Seavey, Sampson Mare, Watts Mare, Carr 
Mare, Sampson Horse, Means Mare, Sturgis Horse, Ab- 
bot Horse, not to name a large number lately sold at the 
. highest average that any colts of any horse yet ever sold 
for in Maine, I repeat, when I see such animals among 
those of his first few years’ service, I am not sorry he was 
brought back to Maine. ‘Nor am I sorry that my neigh- 
bors and friends can share with me the value of this fine 
animal, 
In the fall of 1865, there seemed to bea feeling on the 
part of the friends of the Drew stock to see McClellan 
(who had been making extraordinary time at Belfast and 
elsewhere) and Knox come together again. I therefore 
entered him in the sweepstakes at the fair of the Horse 
Association at Waterville, and left for Canada, my health 
having entirely given out. The day previous to the day 
for the sweepstakes trial, Mr. Palmer was thrown from 
his sulky, and badly injured, so as to be unable to drive. 
No other person ever drove him, and my friends were 
unwilling to take the responsibility to select a driver, 
therefore Knox was drawn,I then felt it was best to 
