316 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
traced, Sold to R. W. Carr, and in 1883 to H. H. Wood- 
bury, Portland, Me. Record 2.30 at Lawrence, Mass., 
July 16th, 1885. 
STAR GAZER, 2.284. 
Bay gelding with diamond on nose and a little white on 
every foot, 15% hands high, foaled in 1878, bred by An- 
-drew Newcomb, Harrison, Me.; got by Farnsworth Patch- 
en (recorded in Vol. Ias Tom F. Patchen), son of Tom 
Patchen, dam said to bea Drew mare. Sold to Fred Pierce, 
Mechanics Falls, Me., and by him to A. BE. Russell, Buck- 
field. At the Maine State Fair of 1886, at Lewiston, Star 
Gazer won the 2.28 race in straight heats in 2.299, 2.32, 
2.30. Record 2.283 at Gray, Me., Sept. 24th, 1886. 
STARTLE, 2.264. 
Black horse foaled in 1870, bred by A. C. Marston then 
of Waterville, Me.; got by the Andrews Horse, son of the 
Crawford horse, dam said to be a Witherell mare. At the 
Maine State Fair of 1874, at Lewiston, Comet (as he was 
then called), won the four-year-old race and a record of 
2.45. Mr. Marston afterwards removed to California and 
took Comet with him. He was called Startle in Califor- 
nia, and Oct. 3d, 1877, at the fair of the Santa Clara Agri- 
cultural Society, Santa Clara, Cal., Startle won the 2.30 - 
race and a record of 2.284. In the 2.30 class at the Cali- 
fornia State Fair of 1878, Startle won the first heat in 
2.264 and was second in the race. Afterwards taken to 
Australia. 
STELLA, 2.33 (To wagon). 
- Black mare with no white marks, 15 hands high, foaled . 
in 1847, bred by Mr. Pease of Stetson, Me. ; got by the Old 
Drew Horse. Sold to Joshua Seward of Boston, and by 
him to Geo. B. Alley of New York. She was the mate of 
Alice Gray in the double team race against Lantern and 
Whalebone, on the Union Course, L. I., June 5th, 1855. 
