42 KOTEt) MAINE BOUSES. 



a race, at Philadelphia, against Grey Eagle, under saddle, 

 for $2,000, winning the first, third and fourth heats, in 

 2.32, 2.33, 2.38. Oct. 15, 1850, at the same place, he dis- 

 tanced Lady Moscow, in the first heat, in 2.30i. 



May 6, 1852, he beat Lady Suffolk and Jack Bossiter, 

 at the Union Course, Long Island. June 18, at the Cen- 

 treville, he beat Tacony. July 14, at Boston, he beat 

 Lady Suffolk, and July 20 he beat her again at the same 

 place. 



Oct. 13, same year, at Philadelphia, he beat Murdock, 

 and Oct. 18 he beat him again, in straight heats, in 2.31, 

 2.29, 2.29. May 6, 1856, at Mobile, Alabama, he beat 

 Belle Creole and Butcher Boy, both pacers, under saddle. 



TOM BENTON. 



Sorrel gelding, with star in the forehead, 15i hands 

 high, foaled in 182-, got by Winthrop Messenger ; and 

 was formerly owned in Bangor, by Mr. Strickland. He 

 was finally taken to Mass., and trotted in the thirties. 



BELLE or POETLAND. 



Sometimes called Lady Walker. Dark bay mare with 

 black points, 14.3 high, foaled in 1850, bred by Josiah 

 Hinkley, of Mercer, Me., got by Witherell, dam, pedigree 

 unknown. 



Hinkley sold her to Dr. Boland, of Kew Sharon, and 

 he to Hannibal Belcher, Esq., of Farmington, in August, 

 1854. In 1855 Mr. Belcher sold her to Oliver Walton, of 

 Boston, for $175, and Walton took her to Winthrop, 

 shortly afterwards and sold her to William Beals. Mr. 

 Beals sold her to James Jack, of Portland, and he to 

 James Irving, of New York. 



In 1857, at the Union Course, July 29, she won a race 



