XIV NOTED MAINE HORSES. 



Of the above number the following, viz. : Baby Boy, Barney 

 Kelley, and Winthrop Morrill, Jr., were wholly unknown, or 

 at best had only a local reputation at the commencement of 

 the trotting season of 1873, and I should not be surprised if 

 the season of 1874 found the following Maine-bred horses 

 performing in the "twenties," viz.: the stallions Bang William 

 and Ben. Morrill, the former having thus early in the season 

 scored a record of 2.3I5 in harness, and 2.35 to wagon, while 

 the latter has trotted close to '30, and the black gelding, 

 James Or. Blaine, claimed by his owners to be the fastest 

 green horse in Kew England, besides many others, whose 

 names may not even appear in the following pages. 



The date of the introduction into the State of Winthrop 

 Messenger, Gen. Knox, Winthrop Morrill, Tom Patchen, and 

 others of less note is given, in its appropriate place, in the 

 body of the work, and I will not allude to it here. 



It has been estimated that there are from twenty to thirty 

 thousand mares used for breeding purposes in Maine, and 

 doubtless in the near future the breeding of gentlemen's 

 driving horses and trotters, will become one of the most profit- 

 able sources of wealth in the State, the natural productive 

 capacity of which is almost without limit. 



The complete list of stallions standing for service in the 

 State in 1873, as taken from the Registry of Deeds in the 

 several counties, will be found in the following pages, those 

 bred in Maine classed with the families to which they belong, 

 and those not Maine bred in an appendix. 



The complete list of names, claimed through the Maine 

 Farmer, is also included, by special permission. 



Taking this work as a foundation, and making use of the 

 generous ofEer of the Farmer to allow names ta be claimed 

 through its columns, free of charge, the task of the future 

 compiler may be rendered a comparatively light one. 



The engravings of King William and Pahner Knox were 

 made expressly for this work, ^om paintings from life, exe- 



