1B NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
Among his descendants are two more in the 2.30 list ~ 
which trace in the direct male line to the Eaton Horse. 
Shepherd Knapp, Jr. bg by Shepherd F. Knapp, son 
of Eaton Horse .....-..ecceccsceccucecescnceeceesede2td 
Grateful, ch g by Brown ‘Home, he by Sandy River 
Horse, son of Eaton Horse...... Seana sei i arb leis ats 2.283 
Among his entire sons are Shepherd F. Knapp, Beals 
Horse, Mount Vernon, taken to Philadelphia, Kennebec 
Messenger, Sandy River horse, or as he was perhaps bet- 
ter known, “Sandy River Trotter,” Bennett Horse, who 
founded a faniily of considerable local repute; Red 
Cloud, Oaks Horse, Roman Eaton, Black Morgan, and 
‘many more. The most prominent of the above, perhaps, 
is the chestnut stallion Shepherd F. Knapp, that went to’ 
England. He (Knapp) was bred by George Snell of 
Turner, Me., got by the Eaton Horse, and his dam by 
Whalebont ktiown by many as the Clark horse, and he by 
Sherman, son of J ustin Morgan. Knapp was owned from 
a weanling to a three-year-old in Buckfield, adjoining 
Turner, and was regarded as an exceedingly promising 
colt, and there was talk of forming a stock company, to 
buy and retain him for stock purposes. The Eaton and 
‘Whalebone faimilies were popular at that time, but the 
project fell through, and he was sold and taken to New 
York, aid afterward to England. As a three-year-old he 
got Shepherd Knapp, Jv., 2.273, and the sorrel mare 
Caoutchouc 2.354, out of lead than a dozen, which proves 
that he would have been a successful sie here, whatever 
he may have been in England. Knapp was a trotter him- 
self and won a race of two miles and a half, near Paris, 
France, in 1865, the time being 6 minutes, 14 seconds, a 
trifle better than 2.30 to the mile. 
The daughters of the Eaton Horse were famous breed- 
ers, and have produced the following, bela records inside 
of 2.30: 
Lothair, blk h by Gilbreth Knox, dam by Eaton Horse 
