80 NOTED MAINE BOSSES. 



from Canada. Emperor got a record of 2.42 as a five- 

 year-old at Portland, and was afterwards sold tpgether 

 with his mate, Kit Carson, to Lon Morris, of Boston, for 

 $2000. 



KIT CARSON. 



Spotted gelding, foaled in 1866, bred by William Traf- 

 ton, St. Albans, Me., got by Gfen. Sherman, by Old Drew, 

 dam, (the dam of Emperor) by Wildair. Subsequently 

 purchased by Lon Morris, of Boston. 



BAYAED. 



Blood bay gelding with black points, 15i hands high, 

 foaled in 1867, owned by A. W. Brackett, Pittsfield, Me., 

 got by the Colbreth horse, by Hiram Drew, dam, the Capt. 

 Adams mare (so called) of Morgan descent. In 1872, at 

 Maine State Fair at Bangor, he won the race for horses 

 that never beat 2.48, the fastest heat being 2.40^, which 

 he won. In 1873, at the Maine State Fair, also at Bangor, 

 he won the race in the 2.40 class, in straight heats, beat- 

 ing a field of fi^e horses in 2.45, 2.47, 2.40. 



DETECTIVE. 



Brown gelding, 15i hands high, foaled about 1856, bred 

 by Samuel Swett, Arrowsic, Me., go(i,by Hiram Drew, 

 dam, pedigree unknown. John Heald, of Portland, 

 bought him in 1865, and afterwards sold him to Lon Mor- 

 ris, of Boston, Mass. Oct. 9, 1867, at Biverside Park, 

 Boston, he obtained a record of 2.35. Oct. 2, 1868, at 

 Boston, he beat Fanchon in 2.38J, 2 39|, 2.44i. 



