44 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 



peror, Belle Morrill, and Lady Eogers, in three straight 

 heats, distancing the two last named in the first heat. 

 Time, 2.28, 2.32, 2,31. Aug. 24, she beat Detective in 

 straight heats, in 2.38J, 2.47f , 2.28^, at the same place. 



Sept. 8, at Springfield, she beat James Morgan, and 

 Britain, in straight heats, fastest, 2.34J. 



Sept. 18, at Worcester, she beat Gen. McClellan'; fastest 

 heat, 2.30. 



Oct. 5, 1869, at the ITarragansett Park, in a race for 

 double teams, Belle Strickland, and Black Harry, won the 

 race, beating five other teams, viz.: Honest Allen and 

 Jessie Wales ; Lydia Thompson and Idle ; India Eubber 

 Ben and Lady Walton; Garibaldi and Darkness; Commo- 

 dore Nutt and Sorrel John; distancing the two last named 

 in the first heat. The fastest heat was 2.30. At Boston, 

 Sept. 18, 1870, she beat Surprise, Harry Harley, and four 

 others, in 2.27, 2.28J, 2.28. 



Oct. 4, 1870, she beat Chas. E. Loew, Harry Harley, and 

 seven others, in straight heats, in 2.26, 2.26, 2.27, for a 

 purse of $2,000. 



She was afterwards purchased by a Mr. Bates, of Ifew 

 York, for |13,000, and driven in single and double har- 

 ness, as a road horse. 



DKESDEN. 



Bright bay gelding, with black points and no white 

 marks, 15 hands high, and weighed about 925 pounds, 

 foaled in May, 1862, bred by Albion Call, of Dresden, Me., 

 got by the Call Horse (by Merrow), dam, a bay mare 

 known as the Dr. Marble mare, pedigree, unknown. He 

 was sold to Geo. M. Eobinson, of Augusta, and he sold 

 him to A. A. Thompson, of New York, for $2,000. 



June 25, 1869, at Narragansett Park, he won a race for 



