24 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
be allowed to compete, as my horses expected to stand at 
service in Maine, as they had been doing, but was notified 
that it was too late to change the programme. 
Knox had been trotting quite well, in his work showing 
2.30 and under quite readily. The next year, being seven 
years old, Knox was drawn early from his services in the 
stud, to.be prepared to meet the Drew stallion Gen. Mc- 
Clellan, then owned by G. M. Robinson, Eeq., of Augusta, 
Mr. Robinson having by letter expressed his desire to 
bring the two horses together. Knox was fitted at the 
half-mile track .at Skowhegan. He worked well 
in his private trials, showed 2.30, 2.28, and once 
2.26. While at this track preparing to meet Gen. 
McClellan, Knox was entered to trot two races in one 
afternoon, one in the stallion purse with Penobscot Boy, 
his former competitor, and the other, in the sweepstakes 
with Henry Taylor’s black gelding Lucknow. Penobscot 
Boy was drawn at the close of the second heat, and Luck- 
now at the close of the first heat, in their respective races. 
A few days later Knox entered in the sweepstakes of the 
Waterville Horse Association, expecting to meet Gen. Mc- 
Clellan. The day of the race, Mr. Robinson declined to 
enter McClellan, he having been beaten a few days before 
at the Maine State Agricultural Show at Portland, by 
Hiram Drew, and Hiram was now present, and had 
entered for the sweepstakes. Knox beat Hiram easily in 
three straight heats, without a break, best time 2.32, Knox 
was fitted for this race in twenty-two days from the ser- 
vices of the stud, having served one hundred and thirty- 
six different mares since April. This season, near a close, 
had shown me such qualifications in Knox, as made me 
desirous to draw him from the track altogether, that his 
services might be had in the stud without hindrances and 
publicly expressed that determination in the stand. How- 
ever, during the next spring Knox was challenged to meet 
Hiram Drew in June, at Bangor. I declined for reasons 
