88 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 



• DANIEL f). TOMPKINS. 



Dark sorrel, or chestnut gelding, with white stripe in. 

 face and white hind feet, about 15 hands high, foaled in 

 1830, bred by a Mr. Libby, of Farmington, Me., got by 

 "Winthrop Messenger. Dam, a roan mare, brought from 

 Westbrook by Mr. Libby; her pedigree was unknown, but 

 her appearance indicated good breeding. Mr. Libby sold 

 the colt, when one year old, to Mr. Gleason, and he to 

 Jonathan Perkins, also of Farmington. 



In March, 1834, Perkins sold him to Charles Simonds, 

 of Maiden, Mass., for $125. Simonds sold Mm to a 

 butcher in Charlestown, where Mr. Oliver Walton saw 

 him and bought him and took him to New York. In 

 1837, Oct. 5, over the Centreville course, he beat Battler, 

 under the saddle, three-mile heats, in 7.59 — 8.09, which 

 was the greatest time as yet recorded. In May, 1838, on 

 the Hunting Park Course, Philadelphia, he trotted a race 

 of three-mile heats against Ned Forrest, for $5000 a side, 

 to go as they pleased. Daniel D. won the first heat in 

 such style that Gen. Cadwallader, who owned Ned For- 

 rest, sold out his chance in the race for $500. Anderson 

 and Spicer, of New York, bought it, and put Forrest in 

 harness, but Daniel D. won it without any trouble. 

 Time of first heat, 8.07; second heat, Forrest distanced, 

 first two two miles done in 5.30. 



After winning the race, Tompkins challenged any 

 horse in the world to trot him three-mile heats, over the 

 Hunting Park Course, at Philadelphia, for the sum of 

 $1,000, without finding a taker. Mr. Woodruff, in his 

 " Trotting Horse of America," says of Daniel D. Tomp- 

 kins, that " he was a good little horse with pluck enough 

 for the biggest that ever trotted." He was afterwards 

 owned by Mr. William Fetterall, of Philadelphia. 



