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Mr. Harlow kept him a stallion until the fall after he was 
three years old, during which time he sired about fifteen 
colts. Mr. Harlow then had him.gelded and in December, 
1846, sold him to Ambrose Merrill of Hallowell, for $95. 
Mr. Merrill sold him to Benjamin Hodges of the same 
place for $300, and Hodges to Oliver Walton of Boston, 
who sold him to Harry Jones of New York, and he to 
John McArdle of Albany, who named him and owned 
him all through his trotting career. His contests with 
such horses as Flora Temple, Lady Suffolk, Lady Moscow, 
Tacony, Jack Rossiter and others, made him one of the 
most celebrated horses of his day. It is not so very long 
ago that he flourished, his races having been trotted be- 
tween the years 1848 and 1854, but so great has been the 
progress of the trotting turf since then, that Mac fairly 
ranks among the old-time trotters. Hissire was a horse 
called Morgan Cesar, but better known in Maine under 
the name of Morgan Post Boy, whose sire was Woodbury 
Morgan, and whose dam was by Quicksilver, while his 
grandam was by Traveller. The dam of Mac was by Bush 
Messenger. The first race in which Mac became promi- 
nent, was trotted Nov. Ist, 1848, at Albany, against Jenny 
Lind, the mare winning the first and third heats, and Mac 
taking the second and fourth in 2.38, 2.42, and after the 
latter Jenny Lind was drawn. A record of 2.38 was fast 
in those days, aud it was not long before Mac was pitted 
against the speediest horses of the country. On the 16th, — 
of May, 1849, we find him in a race against those old fiy- © 
ers, Lady Moscow and Jack Rossiter, two-niile heats un- 
der saddle, which he won taking the second and fourth 
heats, the fastest in 5.10, a rate of 2.35. Onthe 5th, 6th, 
_and 7th of June, 1848, we find him engaged in three races, 
‘at Providence with the most noted flyer of her day, Lady 
Suffolk. In the first of these he was victorious, taking 
three heats in 2.294, 2.32, 2.31; but the old gray mare de- 
teated him in both the other races, leaving him behind the 
