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This list of Maine 2.30 horses I believe to be complete, with 

 perhaps the following exceptions : I am informed, since the 

 body of the work has been in the printer's hands, that the 

 gray gelding, Hopeful, by Godfrey's Geot M. Patchen, which 

 won a race at Prospect Park, Sept. 23, 1873, in a field of 

 twelve horses, winning the last three out of five heats, in 2.26, 

 2.27, 2.25, was bred in Maine, near Newport, and kept there 

 until four years old. I am also informed that Elisha (which 

 see) won a record of 2.26 in California, and although I am 

 unable to find any published account of said race, still I am 

 inclined to place confidence in the statement. 



Shepard F. Knapp, the one that went to England, won a 

 race near Paris, France, trotting two and a half miles in six 

 minutes and fourteen seconds, which is a trifle better than 

 2.30 to the mile. Many believe that Plato, by Gen. Enoz, has 

 a record of 2.27J, and since my list of 2.30 horses appeared 

 in the Mame Farmer I have received several letters, asking my 

 reasons for not including Plato. To all such I will say that I 

 am unable to find any such record to his credit. I have been 

 informed, also, that Ben. McClellan, who won the second heat 

 in a race, at Troy, K. T., July 24, 1867, in 2.30, was bred in 

 Maine, and got by the Old Drew horse, but I have failed 

 entirely to identify him. 



