78 NOTED MAINE BORSES. 



. Titcomb sold him to William S. Briggs, of Taunton, 

 Mass. Sept. 20, 1870, at Boston, Mass., he beat eight 

 horstts, winning the third, fourth, and fifth heats, and 

 race, in 2.37, 2.39, 2.39. Two days afterwards, Sept. 22, 

 he beat four horses, in straight heats, at the same place, 

 time 2.32}, 2.37, 2.36^. Sept. 28, follQwing, he beat Andy 

 Johnson, Gipsey, Lady Hughes, Perry Henshaw, Day- 

 light, Lady Alice, and Shawmut, winning the second, 

 third, and fifth heats, in 2.34}, 2.37, 2.37. 



EASTERN QUEEN. 



Black mare, 16 hands high, with no white marks, foaled 

 in 1862, formerly owned by Daniel Wyman, of Dover, 

 Me., got by the Leighton Horse, by Old Drew, dam, a 

 dark bay mare, pedigree, unknown. Eastern Queen was 

 afterwards taken to Boston, and Sept. 29, 1869, she won a 

 race at Boston, in three straight heats, beating Thomas 

 Jefferson, Penobscot Chief, Capt. Lawrence, General 

 Sherman, Lady Lightfoot, Big Jim, and Jenny Spencer. 

 Time 2.37}, 2.33}, 2.33. Oct. 21, 1869, at the Union 

 Course, L. L, she beat Lady Wells, in straight heats, in 

 2.35f, 2.36, 2.36|. Afterwards owned by E. J. Nodine, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1871, she foaled Richard, brown 

 horse, by Nodine's Peacemaker, by Rysdyke's Hamble- 

 tonian. 



BLACK WALNUT. 

 Black gelding, foaled in 1860, bred in Belfast, Me., or 

 vicinity, got by Dirigo, dam, not traced. He was former- 

 ly owned by Harry Bradley, and finally, by Col. Bing- 

 ham, of the Revere House, Boston. Aug. 31, 1869, at 

 Dover, N. H., he beat Nellie Locke and Topsey, winning 

 the third, fourth, and eighth heats in 2.31J, 2.36, 2.38. 



