288 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
race of four heats, to wagons, against Commodore Van- 
derbilt, at the Fashion Course, L. I., for a purse of $2000. 
Mac won two heats in 2.30% each, and one in 2.314. He 
was subsequently purchased and taken to California by 
M. J. Lewis, Esq., where he died. 
GEORGE JONES (pacer) 2.26%. 
Bay gelding foaled in 1878, bred by 8. W. Turner, Mos- 
cow, Me.; got by Quicksilver, he by Young Hiram Drew, 
dam by Mor rill Champion. He passed through the hands 
of 8. G. Wethern, No. New Portland, Me., into those of 
Dr. Sheahan of Quincy, Mass. Oct. Ist, 1884, at Brock- 
ton, Mass., George Jones won the first heat in the 3.00 race 
trotting in 2.364. In 1886 he was put to pacing, and at 
Mystic Park, Boston, Aug. 3d, he won the 2.28 pace 
in 2.308, 2.26%, 2.32. 
GEORGE’ O., 2.244. 
Bay gelding with very slim tail, 15 hands high, foaled 
in 1876, bred by Otis & Parker, Belfast, Me.; got by Ham- 
bletonian Chief, dam by Gen. Knox. Hambletonion Chief 
by Middletown. George O. was sold when four years 
old to George O. Bailey of Belfast. Not long afterwards 
he ran away, no one being in the wagon and collided with 
a fence in such a way as to receive a deep puncture and 
cut in the breast, from which he nearly bled to death. For 
two years he was used but little. In 1883 he came out as 
a green horse and trotted nine races, winning eight, with 
a record of 2.313. In 1884 he was very successful, his 
crowning triumph being at Mystic Park, Boston, where he 
won a six heat race on Oct. 16th and 17th, winning the 
first heat in 2.30%, the third in 2.264, when the race was 
postponed. On the 17th he won the deciding heat in 2.244 
his fastest record. He met with an accident which caused 
his death before the season of 1885 opened, an account of 
which we copy from the Belfast Journal: 
“At 6.30 Thursday morning, the 12th of March, Mr. 
