MOM<?AN STOCK. 53 



by the Hunter Morgan (?) of N. H., owned by W. H. 

 Grant, Waltham, Me. * 



MAC. 



Dark chestnut or brown gelding, with black tail and 

 mane, and no white marks, 15^ hands high. He was 

 foaled in 1843, bred by Thomas Record, of Canton, Me., 

 got by Morgan Csesar, better known in Maine as Morgan 

 Post Boy, owned by Gen. John M. Eustis, of Dixfield, 

 Me., who at one time owned old Winthrop Messenger. 

 Morgan Csesar was by Woodbury, he by Justin Morgan, 

 dam, by Quicksilver. Mac's dam was a large powerful 

 brown mare, by Bush Messenger. 



Mr. Record sold him when three and one-half months 

 old, td Mr. Samuel Harlow, of Canton. Mr. Harlow 

 kept him a stallion, until the fall after he was three years 

 old, during which time he got about fifteen colts; Mr. 

 Hallow then gelded him, and in December, 1846, sold 

 him to Ambrose Merrill, of Hallowell, for |95; Mr. Mer- 

 rill sold him to Benjamin Hodges, of Hallowell, for $300; 

 Hodges sold him to Oliver Walton, of Boston; he to 

 Harry Jones, of New York, who in turn disposed of him 

 to Mr. John McArdle, of Albany, who named him.. Mr. 

 Woodruff says, " Mac was a very famous horse and very 

 fast." June 5th, 1849, he won a race at Providence, R. I., 

 under saddle, in three heats, the fastest of which was 2.- 

 29^, beating Lady Suffolk, and two others. June 14, he 

 trotted on the Cambridge Course under saddle, against 

 Lady Suffolk, and Gray Eagle. The first heat was Mac's in 

 2.31 and the Lady second. Gray Eagle was then drawn. 

 The Lady -won the second heat, in 2.26, and Mac won 

 the other two in 2.27, 2.29. On the 9th of July, at 

 the Union Course, L. I., he beat Lady Suffolk, in four 



