14 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
from which he was taken several times. Here, in Mr. 
Drew’s pasture, he sired the colt afterward known as the 
Drew Horse, which is probably the only colt he ever got, 
as Mr. Hunt had him castrated shortly after and sold him. 
The dam of the Drew Horse was a, bay mare, about 
154 hands high, foaled about the year 1836, bred by Mark 
Pease, of Jackson, Me., got by a horse called Sir Henry, 
he by a son of American Eclipse, taken from Connecticut 
to Maine by a Dr. Brewster, now dead. In 1843, the mare 
was taken to Massachusetts, and sold to the late Gen. 
F. W. Lander; she was first known as Grace Darling, and 
afterward as Boston Girl, under which uame she was said 
to have obtained a record of 2.37. After several transfers, 
she was sent up into Vermont, on a breeding farm, where 
she died without produce. The grandam of the Drew 
Horse was Lady Jane, by Winthrop Messenger. 
As I have before intimated, the Drew Horse, or, as he 
is now universally designated, ‘‘Old Drew,” was untrained 
to trot; his reputation having been all earned in the stud. 
Of his immediate descendants, only two appear in the 2.30 
list, as follows: 
Gen. McClellan........ ccc ccc c eee e sec ee ecw cece eo 2226 
DIIGO isis 's sees visnee 6 aetes sae {FAad beng eee 2.29 
Gen. McClellan atterward obtained quite a reputation 
on the turf. Among his performances he beat Fearnaught, 
a race to wagons, in straight heats, over the old Riverside 
Park, Boston, in 1865. In 1866 he won adouble-team race 
with Dashaway, beating Ethan Allen and Honest Allen. 
He was subsequently purchased and taken to California 
by M. J. Lewis, Esq. Here he won a race at Sacramento, 
after which time he wasin the stud at San Francisco, 
Stockton, Oakland, and other places in that State. None 
of his get are in the 2.30 list. He is now dead. 
Dirigo is said to resemble his sire more nearly in style, 
color, etc., than any son of Old Drew. At the time he 
made his record of 2.29, in a race at Belfast, Me., he was 
