306: NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
following, he was entered in a race at Mystic Park, pre- 
vious to which he was dosed in a cowardly and rascally 
manner, which almost resulted in his death. His throat 
and mouth became greatly inflamed and he was unable 
for a time to swallow. It was thought Croton Oil did 
the work. Afterwards taken to Michigan where he died 
the pepe ty of W. R. Nims of Lexington. 
LEW PETTEE, 2.29. 
Dark bay gelding nearly 16 hands high, with great 
length, great bone and immense muscular development. 
He had a steep rump, like Mr. Bonner’s Auburn horse, 
and resembled that horse in other particulars, foaled in 
1860, bred by Wentworth Thurston, Madison, Me.; got by 
the Benson horse, he by Crawford, dam of Messenger. de- 
scent. John Swan of Anson, took him to New York, in 
1866, and sold him to Mr. William Turnbull. Oct. 31st, 
1866, at the Union Course, L. I., in a race for a purse of 
$2,000, two miles and repeat, he distanced Bull Run in 
the first heat in 5.083. June 29th, 1868, at the Fashion, he 
beat Dixie, winning the third, fourth and fifth heats and 
race in 2.29, 2.82, 2.84. July 10th, at the same place he 
beat Tackey, in 2.30%, 2.3834, 2.303. July, 16th, he beat 
Old Put and Cora, at Narragansett, fastest heat 2.31. 
Purchased in 1872 by F. D. Norris, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
MAC, 2.27. 
In the good old times when the sport of trotting was in 
its infancy, Maine contributed her share to the trotting 
stock of the country. Fanny Pullen, Daniel D. Tompkins, 
Tom Benton, Zac Taylor, Mac, Lafayette and Pelham, 
were names as familiar to the sport loving people of those 
days, as is that of Maud S. and Jay-eye-see, to those of 
the present. One of the most famous of the old time trot- 
ters, was the subject of this sketch. Mac was a brown 
gelding standing 154 hands high, foaled in 1848, the prop- 
‘ erty of Thomas Record, Canton, Me., who sold him when 
a weanling to Mr. Thomas Harlow, of ‘the samc town. 
