298 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
Derby, Boston, Mass. At Plainville, Conu., Aug. 28th, 
1878, Iron Age won the 2.81 race after a severe contest of 
seven heats, winning the second heat in 2.30, the third in 
2.32, and the seventh and race in 2.29. Sept. 3d, follow- 
ing, he won the first heat in the 2.27 class in 2.26, the sec- 
ond in 2.263, and made a dead heat with Hambrino in the 
third in 2.26, and was second in the race. It was the 
opinion of many that this heat should have been given to 
' Tron Age, and the race ended then and there. At Mystic 
Park, Boston, June 15th and 16th, 1880, he won a race of 
nine heats in 2.254, 2.25%, 2.273, 2.264, 2.26, 2.28, 2.234, 
2.283, 2.28, reducing his record to 2.233. ,At Providence, 
R. L., Sept. 10th, 1884, Iron Age won the first heat in the 
2.23 class in 2,194 and was second in the race. 
JACK SPRATT, 2.263. 
_Brown gelding with two white ankles behind, foaled in 
June, 1875, bred by Gilbert Fowler, then of Portland, 
Me.; got by. Tom Patchen, dam a small mare supposed to 
be a Morgan. Sold to W. H. Snell, Portland, Me. Jack ~ 
Spratt was very successful in Maine during the season of 
1883 and 1884, dropping into the 2.30 list at the Oxford 
County Fair, by winning the free-for-all in 2.353, 2.344, 
- 2.294. July 23d,1885, at Lowell, Mass.,he won in straight 
heats, time 2.283, 2.284, 2.30. At Manchester, N. H., ~ 
Lewiston. Me., and Rochester, he won without reducing 
his record. At Brockton, Mass., Oct. 9th, he won again 
in straight heats in 2.28, 2.26%, 2.274. 
JENNY W., 2.30. 
Brown mare foaled in 1871, bred by Ireson Briggs of 
Parkman, Me.; got by Brown Harry, dam said to be a 
Black Hawk. Sold to C. O. Palmer, Dover, Me., and by 
him to C.S. Clark, Salem, Mass. Record 2.30 at Boston, 
Oct. 14th, 1880. 
J.G. BLAINE, 2.28%. 
Black gelding without white, foaled in 1866, ined by 
