40 NOTED MAINE BOUSES. 



Her first colt, caUed by Prank Forrester the " incom- 

 parable Trustee," and widely known as Trustee, the 

 ■twenty-miler, was the first horse to trot twenty miles in- 

 side an hour, which he accomplished in '69, 35^. 



The race against time took place over the Union 

 Course, Long Island, on Friday, Oct. 20, 1848, and Trustee 

 won for himself imperishable renown as a trotting-horse, 

 and accomplished at his own gait what it is not, by any 

 means, every thoroughbred hunter that can perform • 

 at a gallop." " An hour after the match," says the edi- 

 tor of the Spirit of the Times, " we visited Trustee in his 

 stable; he exhibited no distress, and on the following day 

 was as fine as silk. We have Seen him half a dozen times 

 since, and he never looked or trotted better. He is a 

 prodigy, but blood will tell." 



Mr. Bridges bred another colt out of Fanny PuUen, by 

 Imported Trustee, an own brother to the twenty-miler. 

 This colt was the sire of the dam of the renowned 

 George M. Patchen, and was himself a fast and stout 

 trotter. He was gelded young, and was driven for many 

 years by a gentleman in Westchester county. In 1839, 

 Fanny. Pullen was purchased of Mr. Bridges, and taken 

 to Boston, by Mr. Spencer J. Vinal, of that, city. She 

 was at that time about 15 years old. Mr. Vinal kept her 

 several years, and finally had her killed, and dumped ofE 

 Commercial Wharf into the dock. Dr. Woods, the 

 veterinary surgeon, preserved one of her fore-legs. 



Fanny Pullen was a pale sorrel, with a coarse hip, low 

 over the withers, and trotted down-headed. Under the 

 saddle was her place to trot fast. 



In looking over the history of Fanny Pullen, I find I 

 have omitted two races in which she was engaged. They 

 are as follows : August 20, 1835, at Harlem, N. Y., she won 



