NOTED MAINE HORSES. 17 
EATON HORSE, 122. 
The ‘Eaton Horse” was a sorrel stallion with mane 
and tail the same color, a horse of immense size and sub- 
stance, standing 164 hands high, and weighing in good 
flesh 1450 pounds. He was foaled in 1842, and hence the 
same age as the Drew horse, and one year older than Ris- 
ing Sun. He was bred by Thomas Pelton, of Anson, 
Me., near Madison Bridge, got by the Avery horse, and 
his dam, the Pelton mare, (so called), by Winthrop Mes- 
senger. 
Pelton sold him when two years old to E. D. Robinson, 
of Wilton, and he to Eliab L. Eaton, who owned him 
several years and from whom he took his name. Eaton 
sold himin 1854, to William Beals, of Winthrop, who 
kept him for three years, and then sold him to Fanning 
& Allen, of Nashville, Tenn., to which place he was 
taken in April, 1857. Up to March, 1878, nothing was 
known in Maine, concerning the subsequent history of © 
the Eaton Horse, but in Wallace’s Monthly for the above 
date, Mr. A. J. McKimmin, of Nashville, says that ‘the 
Eaton Horse was kept in Nashville but one season, where 
he was not appreciated, and he was taken from thence of 
Hopkinsville, Ky.” He further says that “he left several 
good horses in Nashville two or three of which made trot- 
ters.” : 
The name of the Eaton Horse appears but once as a sire 
in the 2.30 list, as follows: 
Grey Stranger, gr g by the Eaton Horse........... 2.30. 
