82.00 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
DRUMMER GIRL. 
Most of our Maine readers will remember the roan mare 
Drummer Girl; alittle mare under 15 hands high, a plucky, 
gamey mare with a rapid, drumming gait, which won her 
her name. She was aninbred Brandywine, being by a 
son of Cobb’s Brandywine, dam by another son, and was 
bred by a Mr. Seavlin, of Minot, Me., and foaled in 1871. 
We first noticed her at Presumpscot Park, in Sept. 1882, 
when in Jerry Woodbury’s hands she won third money in 
the 3.00 class. She had previously seen hard usage as a 
‘let horse in a Livery Stable at Norway, Me., where Will 
Shaw got her and sold her to W. W. Lydston of Lewis- 
ton. At the Maine State Fair at Lewiston, on the 28th of 
Sept. following, she won the race for Green Horses, win- 
ning the first heat in 2.41, the second in 2.403, and the 
fifth and race in 2.384. Oct. 5th, following, at the Oxford 
County Fair, she won second money to Dandy J., win- 
ning the first heat in 2.414 and the fourth in 2.364. In the 
early spring of 1883, she disappeared, together with her 
owner and groom, and we subseqoently learned that ‘she. 
was shipped to Pennsylvania, was clipped and June 27th, 
at Erie started in the 3.00 class. July 4th, at Youngstown, 
Ohio, as William Wallace’s brown mare Lizzie D., by 
Royal Revenge, dam Lizzie, by Simpson’s Blackbird; she 
won the 2.40 race, winning the second heat in 2.304 and 
fourth and fifth in 2.374 and 2.34. On the same day she 
won second money in the 3.00 race, being second in every 
heat in 2.37, 2.314, 2.34. July 5th, at the same place, she 
won 2d money in the 2.45 class, winning the third heat in 
2.343. July 11th, W. Wallace’s brown mare Lizzie D., 
by Brandywine, at Bennington, Vt., won the 3.00 race in 
straight heats in 2.394, 2.40, 2.3943. July 24th, at Honsac 
Falls, N. Y., W. Wallace’s brown mare Lizzie D., won 
the 2.35 race for a purse of $300 in four heats, winning 
the last three in 2.393, 2.35, 2.8364. The next day at the 
same place she won the 3.00 race, purse $300, winning the 
