54 NOTED MAIA^ HORSES. 



heats. On the 10th, he trotted two-mile heats, under sad- 

 dle, against Lady SuflEolk, and" Jack Bosslter, and won in 

 two heats, the Lady being last In the first heat, and then 

 drawn; the time was 5.9, 5.18. Frank Forrester in his 

 " Horse of America " says, " Mac's performances in 

 1849 were enough to prove him, what he was, a first-rate 

 animal for his day. He made his mile once in 2.26, and 

 his two miles in 5.9, 5.10." The last race of which we 

 have any knowledge, in which he was engaged, was on 

 the 5th of October, 1854, against Flora Temple, mile 

 heats, three in five, in harness, for a purse of $1000. 

 John McArdle still owned him, and he had been injured 

 by over driving, and had got " the thumps," still he was 

 very famous for his many contests with Tacony, and 

 when matched with Flora Temple, was thought to 'be as 

 good as anything out. But the mare beat him with great 

 ease in three heats, the fastest of which was 2.31|. 



WHALEBONE. • 



Chestnut gelding, 16J hands high, with white in face, 

 and white hind foot, foaled in 184 — , got by "Whalebone, 

 dam, not traced. 



He was owned in Portland, by George Babcock, after- 

 wards by Mr. Thompson, of Roxbury St., Boston, thence 

 to New York, into George Hall's hands. In June, 1856, 

 on Long Island, he trotted a double-team race with Lan- 

 tern, against Stella, and Alice Gray, beating them in 2.- 

 42, which was at that time the fastest on record in that 

 way of going, and was considered a remarkable perform- 

 ance. 



BLACKSTONE BELLE. 



Black mare, under 15 hands high, foaled in 18S6,. bred . 

 by Washington Treat, of Canton, Me., got by Whale- 



