106 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 



He became very famous, and made his mark on all the 

 "Western and Southern trotting tracks, from Cincinnati to 

 New Orleans. Among hislljerformances were the follow- 

 ing : In 1864, at Cincinnati, Aug. 16, he won a race and 

 a record of 2.294, beating Harry Clay and Brown Dick. 



At the Illinois State Pair, in 1865, Sept. 9th, in a race 

 with Cooley, Lady Walker and Quaker Boy, Nabocklish 

 won the second heat in 2.29J. 



In 1869, Aug. 13, at Buffalo, N. Y., he. trotted a double 

 team race with Medoc against Kitty and Belle Collins, in. 

 which the mares were distanced in the first heat. 



All who have read " Horse Portraiture," by Joseph 

 Cairn Simpson, and most horsemen have read it, have no 

 doubt been much interested in the history and perform- 

 ances of the horse " Never Mind." This horse and 

 Nabocklish are believed to be one and the same. 



EMPEEOE. 



Bay gelding with black points, 14 hands high, and 

 weighed, in trotting condition, 725 pounds, foaled in 1860, 

 bred by Levi Gardner, of Plantation No. 4, Pranklin 

 county, got by the Eollins Horse, by Eising Sun, dam, a 

 small mare " got by a Messenger horse owned in Somer- 

 set county." 



Gardner sold him young, and after having several 

 owners he became, at five years of age, the property of 

 Mr. Albert Poster, of Canton Point, Me. He was at that 

 time a pacer. Mr. Poster got him in the Spring, and the 

 following Fall he let Granville Childs, also of Canton 

 Point, have him. 



While owned by Mr. Childs he commenced to trot, and 

 improved rigl^t along, and when six years old he sold him 

 to Charles Eecords, of Mass., and Isaiah Pompilly, of 



