256 NOTED MAINE BORSES. 



When a. colt he met with an accident by falling over 

 backwards, striking on his crest, and he never recovered 

 from the injury. He always earned his head to the left, 

 with his neck a little " crooked* hence his name. He 

 was a very powerful horse, but was only broken to the 

 saddle. 



BL^CXBIRD. 



We find in the " Horse of America," by Frank For- 

 rester, vol. 2, page 159, that in July, 1835, Blackbird 

 m^ide his debut, as a green one from Maine, and beat 

 Eichard in. and Master Burke, in straight heats, in 2.55, 

 2.55, 2.54. He was owned by Mr. George Wilson, of 

 New York, and with his mate, Jerry, both considerably 

 under 16 hands — see Frank Forrester, as above — " formed 

 the prettiest, pleasantest, most gentlemanly looking, and 

 a long way short of being the slowest jfeir of pony trot- 

 ting horses I ever saw in the hands of a private gentle- 

 man."- 



GOLDEN ROBIN. 



White stallion, under 15 hands high, foaled in 1832, 

 bred by Alvah Kilgore, of Newry, Oxford'county, Me. 

 His dam was a white mare, bred by Peter G. Smith, of 

 Bethel, got by the Israel Thome horse,. so called, of 

 Standish. She was taken to Ohio by the late Phineas 

 Frost, a prominent resident of Bethel, who emigrated to 

 that State with his family in 1831, but owing to sickness 

 in his family he returned late in the fall of the same year. 

 While in Cleveland, Ohio, his mare was served by a horse 

 called Golden Robin, and after returning to Maine, he 

 sold her to Alvah Kilgore, and the colt was foaled his 



