284 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
old, aud he was at that timea pacer. Foster let Granville 
Childs, also of Canton Point, have him and the following 
winter he commenced to trot, and when six he was sold 
_ to Uhas. Records and Isaiah Pompilly. Oct. 14th, 1868, 
at Narragansett Park, Providence, R. I., he started in a 
race winning the second heat in 2.30, and the third in 2.32. 
and was distanced in the fourth. 
EMPEROR, 2.294. 
(852) 
Black horse with star, 153 hands high, foaled in 1865; 
got by the Newman Horse by the Rollins Horse, dam by 
Lewiston Boy. Bred and owned by O. C. Houghton, 
Bryants Pond, Me., and S. D. Houghton, Worcester, 
Mass. At Beacon Park, Boston, May 16th, 1877, he 
captured the 2.31 race in straight heats in 2.293, 2.314, 
2.314. 
EMPEROR WILLIAM, 2.273. 
(1746). 
Bay horse with black points, 16 hands high, fualea in 
1867, bred by C. H. & J. M. Skinner, St. Albans, Me.; 
got by Gen. Knox, dam Lady Hollis, a fast pacing mare 
brought from Massachusetts, pedigree unknown. At the 
Maine State Fair of 1879, he won the 2.32 race with a rec- 
ord of 2.314. In October following, at Monroe, Me., he 
trotted a race against Anodyne and Ned B., winning the 
first heat in 2.274. Afterwards sold to Messrs. Odell, New 
York Oity. Sire of Frank F., 2.262. : 
EZRA L., 2.213. 
Roan gelding with black points and little white on off 
hind coronet, 154 hands high, foaled in 1874; bred by 
Benjamin Simpson, Bangor, Me., got by Gideon, dam by 
Tom Benton, son of the Drew Horse; 2d dam the bay 
trotting mare Lady Franklin. Sold to Ezra L. Stearns, 
Bangor, Me. At Springfield, Mass., Sept 2d, 1882, he 
