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WINTHEOP M0RR1LL,'Je. 



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

 and weighs about 1000 pounds, foaled in 1864, bred by 

 Kathaniel Gould, of Camden, Me., got by a horse called 

 Metacomet, he by the Old Morrill horse, of Danville, 

 Vt. Metacomet has since been gelded, and sold to 

 go to New York. The dam of Winthrop Morrill, Jr., 

 was a small mare, of the Fox breed. He was first called 

 Butcher Boy, and Oct. 15, 1868, as a foui-year-old, he 

 trotted over the Belfast Trotting Park, and obtained a 

 record of 2.55. 



He was afterward sold to John Morgan, of Pembroke, 

 Me., and by him to G. H. Cotton, of Somerville, Mass. 



June 3, 1873, at Beacon Park, Boston, in a race for 

 horses that had never beaten 3.00, he won the fourth heat, 

 and a record of 2.34i. 



June 5, two days afterward, at the same place, he won 

 the 2.50 race, beating six horses. The race- was one of 

 four heats, the last three of which he won, time, 2.33f , 

 2.34}, 2.32|. 



June 18, at Fleetwood Park, New York, he won the 

 2.50 race, beating ten horses, winning the first, third and 

 fourth heats, in 2.33, 2.31, 2.35. 



June 26, at the same place, he won the first, fourth and 

 fifth heats, in the 2.43 race in 2.31f , 2.31^, 2.34^. 



August 20, at Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass., he 

 won a race for horses that never beat 2.31. The race in 

 •which ten heats were disposed of, was a very severe one, 

 Winthrop Morrill, Jr., winning the sixth, eighth and 

 tenth heats and race in 2.35J, 2.34, 2.37. 



Sept. 25, at the Prospect Park Fair Grounds, he won a 

 race in three straight heats, in 2.30, 2.32, 2.28|, beating 



