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The fourth, heat -was won hy Twang, the fifth hy Topsey, 

 and the sixth lay between Twang, Topsey and Knox, all 

 the rest who had not won a heat being out. GUbreth Knox 

 was thought hy many to be the fastest of the three, but 

 he was distanced, and the heat and race won by Twang. 

 Sept. 29, 1871, at Portland, Me., he beat Shepherd Knapp, 

 jr., and others in staight heats in 2.32^, 2.34J, 2.37^. 



LOTHAIE. 



Black stallion 15| hands high, and weighs about 1050 

 pounds, foaled in 1867, bred by the late J. H. Gilbreth, 

 of Fairfield, Me., got by Gilbreth Knox, dam, the Bunker 

 mare, by Old Eaton. 



He was formerly called Knox-them-all, and Mr. Gilbreth 

 sold him to Messrs. Wright & Norcross, of Pearnaught 

 Farm, for $5000. As a three-year old he gained consid- 

 erable notoriety for his race against " Startle " by Ham- 

 bletonian, which took place Sept. 1, 1870, at the Prospect 

 Park, L. I., for a purse of S5000. His first season on the 

 turf was in 1873, (^ring which he was very successful. 

 June 10, at the Forest City Park, Portland, Me., he won 

 the race for horses that never beat three minutes, beating 

 Baby Boy, Flora and Lady Walton, with a record of 2.48, 

 the fastest heat — 2.45 — ^being won by Baby Boy. Two' 

 days afterward, at the same place, he won the 2.50 race in 

 straight heats, time, 2.45, 2.44, 2.45. 



June 27, at Mystic Park, Boston, he won a race in 

 straight heats, in 2.35J, 2.36, 2.38i, beating Baby Boy, 

 Medoc, Eex Patchen, Lady Hamilton, Ludlow Boy, Folly 

 and Jim Fisk. 



July 3, at the Beacon Park, he beat Flora Belle and 

 Folly, time, 2.35, 2.33i, 2.33, 2.32J. Flora Belle winning 

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