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WHALEBONE. 



Sometimes called the " Clark Horse," was a cliestnut 

 stanion, about 15 hands high, and weighed 975 pounds, 

 foaled in l^SO, bred by Eobert Bradley, Eryeburg, Me., 

 got by Sherman, by Justin Morgan ; dam, not traced. 

 Mr. Bradley sold him to Merrill Wyman, also of Erye- 

 burg, and he in 1840, when' ten years old, to Gen. Philo 

 Clark, of Turner, for $350. Gen. Clark kept him until 

 1853, and he was then sold to Alvah Merrill, also of Turn- 

 er, for ^100. He had become partially paralyzed some 

 three years before, in consequence of an injury. . After 

 having several different owners, he died in Phillips, Me., 

 in 1858. He was a horse of fine style and carriage, and 

 ■was a favorite parade horse. In,all his leading character- 

 istics, he bore a striking resemblance to the best type of 

 the Morgan breed of horses, and always exhibited in a 

 high degree, those qualities that have given them their 

 justly earned celebrity. 



POLLARD MORGAN. 



Black stallioff, with white in face, about 15 hands high, 

 and weighed about 950 pounds, foaled in 1847, bred by 

 Col. James Hfersey, of Sumner j'Me., got by Whalebone, 

 dam of Messenger descent. Col. Hersey sold him when 

 three years old to Demus Bicker, of Hartford, for $65,> 

 and Bicker sold him when five to Maj. Isaac Strickland, 

 of Brettun's Mills, Livermore. Strickland sold him to 

 Lewis Pollard, of Turner, and he to Dr. Alonzo Garcelon, 

 of Lewiston. 



PRINCE MESSENGER. 

 Perhaps better known as the " Guild Horse." Black 

 stallion, with star in forehead, 15 h^nds high, foaled in 



