60 NOTED MAINE HOUSES. 



DRET^ STOCK. 



OLD DREW. 



The originator of the famous Drew breed of horses 

 was a dark brown bay stallion, with black points, «15i 

 hands high, and weighing, in good condition, about 1000 

 pounds; of genteel form, and fine style and' action, but 

 like all our older horses, he was untrained to trot. His 

 appearance has been described as follows, by one who 

 saw him shortly before his death : " Shoulders extreme- 

 ly high, broad and deep, neck light at the head, well 

 arched, and deep at the body; face a little rounding, eyes 

 not very prominent, ears good length and well cut, body 

 small, loins a trifle arched, hips very long and beautifully 

 turned, limbs large, pasterns long, feet high, black and 

 nice, mane spare, tail in waves, and hair short and fine 

 all over the body." 



He was foaleJin May, 1842, bred by Hiram Drew, 

 then of Exeter, Me., and dropped on his father's farm, 

 where he then lived. 



He was got by a three-year-old bay colt, 16 hands high, 

 said to be thoroughbted. Said colt was bought of an 

 English officer in Predericton or St. John, N". B., and 

 brought to Maine by A. G. Hunt, then of Exeter. His 

 dam was said to have been brought from England in foal 



