128 NOTED MAI^E HORSES. 



The first heat Lady Maud won in 2.30J ; the second she 

 lost in 2.29J, and the fourth and fifth she won in the re- 

 markably fast time of 2.22f , 2.22i, which is said to be the 

 . fastest recorded for the age. In 1873 she was bred to Jay 

 Gould, who has the fastest public record of any stallion 

 living. 



GILBRETH KNOX. 



Black stallion, 15| hands high, and weighs about 1075 

 , pounds, foaled in 1862, bred'by Samuel Guild, of Augus- 

 ta, got by Gen. Knox, dam, the Cahill mare so called, 

 brought from the West, and pedigree unknown. Guild 

 sold him when about a year old to J. H. Gilbreth, of 

 Kendall's Mills, Me. After Mr. Gilbreth's death he was 

 sold to Mr. A. Wentworth, of Boston, for $1700. 



Among his performances on the turf while owned in 

 Maine are the following: Sept. 7, 1869, at Portland, Me., 

 he teat Gen. McClellan, winning the last three out of 

 four heats in 2.37^, 2.40, 2..S7. Two days afterward he 

 beat him again in 2.3f , 2.36. Sept. 25, 1869, in a race at 

 Boston, Mass., he won the first heat in 2.31. The second 

 was a dead heat between Gilbreth Knox and McClellan, 

 and the time was again 2.31. At Narragansett Park, Oct. 7, 

 1869, in a race for horses that ne^er beat 2.31, there were 

 ten entries. Twang won the first heat in 2.28i, and Gil- 

 breth Knox the second in 2.26|, and the third in 2.29^. 

 As they were coming down for the word, in the third 

 heat, Gilbreth Knox's driver drove too near the pole, 

 and was thrown out of his sulky. He hung to the reins 

 after he was overboard, but Knox was a little frightened 

 and was finally let go, trotting half way around the 

 course alone, when he held up and was captured. 

 Another vehicle was furnished and they got the word. 



