318 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
SUSIE OWEN, 2.26. _ 
‘Brown mare 15} hands high, foaled in 1877, bred by 
C. H. Nelson, Waterville, Me., then of China, Me.; got 
by Daniel Boone, dam Gretchen (the dam of Nelson,2.262) 
by Gideon. Sold to G. H. Hicks of Boston, and June 24th, 
1885 she started at Boston, winning a second heat in. 
2.264, and was second in the race. July Ist, following, 
she reduced her record to 2.26, by winning a heat in a race 
at the same place. : 
TAMMANY, 2.27. 
Light gray gelding, 15% hands high, foaled in 1864, 
owned by Daniel M. Atherton,Houlton, Aroostook coun- 
ty, Me.; ‘“‘got by a bay stallion with black points, with 
deep shoulders, high withers and large stifies, showing 
good breeding in every point;” was said to be by Rising 
Sun, and was afterwards on a stage team in Piscataquis . 
county. The dam of Tammany was a gray, inbred, Mes- 
senger mare, got by Warrior,he by Young Winthrop Mes- 
senger. Tammany resembled his dam in color,and his sire 
in form and general characteristics. He was afterwards 
owned by C. F. Jordan,of Oldtown,and when seven years 
old he got a record of 2.27 in a race at Bangor. 
THORNBURG, 2.213. 
Bay gelding without white, foaled in 1877, bred by 
P. M. Butters, then of Exeter, Me.; got by Judge Advo- 
cate, dam Lady Reno, by Gen. Grant, (see page 165). Mr. 
Butters moved to Denver, Col. and took some stock with 
him, in the lot Thornburg, for which he had previously 
claimed the name of Col. Thornburg in the Horse Breed- 
ers’ Monthly. June 26th, 1884, at Stillwater, Minn., 
Thornburg won the 2.38 race in straight heats, time 2.264, 
2.27, 2.318. He won other races during the season with- 
out lowering the above record, and Aug. 9th, at Buffaio, 
he started in the 2.27 class, the winner of fastest heat to 
