+ MAINE 2,30 LIST. 301 
\ KING WILLIAM, 2.35 (ro wagon). 
: (1575). : 
' About a dozen years ago there was a horse well known 
in Maine as King William. He was owned by J. W. Mc- 
Duffee of Lewiston. Me., and was perhaps the best adver- 
tised and the worst managed horse the State ever pro-. 
duced. He was by Hampton, 201, and his dam was said 
to be by Witherell. A painstaking friend, however, has 
traced his pedigree carefully and for the truth of history 
we publish the result of his researches here. King Wil- 
liam was foaled in 1866, and bred by Col. Golder of Phips- 
burg, Me. He was a handsome horse 15$ hands high, of 
commanding appearance, a nice bay in color, and with 
proper management ought to have had a record low down 
in the twenties, whereas he made himself and his sire stan- 
dard_by a single heat in 2.35 to wagon, in a race over the 
Lewiston, Me., half-mile track. The first dam of King 
William was known as the Stinson mare, and was got by 
the Blinn horse of Dresden, Me., which horse was said to 
be a son of Sir Charles, by Sherman Morgan, 2d dam the 
Hinton mare by a horse called Harmony, breeding un- 
traced; 3d dam the Webb mare owned by Samuel Reed 
2d, of Woolwich, Me.; 4th dam Cotter mare owned by 
Gould Hathorn of Woolwich; 5th dam a pacer known as 
the Lightning mare owned by Nathan Webb also of Wool- 
wich, who bred her. She was foaled about 1810. King 
William became notorious if not famous,through his many 
contests with the black stallion Phil Sheridan, by Gen. 
Knox, in which he was generally vanquished in slow time, 
although he proved the victor in at least one race which 
. we well remember, over the old track at Mechanic Falls. 
He was at Boston one season, and obtained a record of 
2.313 at Mystic Park, in June 1884. We started,however, 
to tell about his famous tour as a ringer through the West- 
ern and Middle State, to which we are impelled by the 
fact that Mr. Wallace in his Trotting Register, and Ches- 
