126 KOTED MAINE HORSES. 



nostrils and ears very thin, necls long and slim, with 

 strong and well-formed legs," and the probability is should 

 no misfortune befall him, he will prove worthy of his il- 

 lustrious breeding, and perpetuate the fame of his sire 

 and dam. 



CAMORS. 



Black gelding with no white marks, 15^ hands high, 

 foaled in 1864, bred by LeyiAtwood, Portland, Me., got 

 by Gen. Knox. 



His dam was bred by Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, of Hiram, 

 Me., and was got by a very common horse, raised and 

 always'kept in Hiram, and out of a mare whose pedigree 

 Gen. Wadsworth does not know. When two years old 

 Mr. Atwood sold him at auction, and he became the 

 property of E. O. Oonant, of Portland. 



He was afterwards sold to Lon Morris, of Boston, who 

 named him, for over $2000. He sold- him to J«hn F. 

 Merrow, also of Boston, for $11,500. August 15, 1872, at 

 TJtica, N. Y., Camors won the race for horses that never 

 beat 2.50 in straight heats, in 2.30, 2.29, 2.31^, for a purse 

 of $3000. August 20, at the Hampden Park, Springfield, 

 Mass., he won the 2.30 race, beating te'B horses in straight 

 heats, in 2.34f, 2.32f, 2.30^. Sept. 10, 1872, at Mystic 

 Park, Boston, he beat Gray Eddy, Dauntless, and Lydia 

 Thompson, in straight heats, time 2.27, 2.25J, 2.26^. . 



His crowning triumph for the season was achieved at 

 the Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Sept. 19, where he beat 

 Judge PuUerton, W. H. Allen, Lulu, and Triumph, win- 

 ning the first and second heats in 2.23, 2.21|, and the 

 fourth in 2.23f 



He wintered at the Mystic Park, Boston, and August 

 16, 1873, he trotted a race at Buffalo, N. Y., against Judge 



