Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-21

every mail colt sired by Gen. Knox has
done stud service, vet how few OF them
have proved even moderately success1ol.
Nv success. mean, in this connection, the
production of trotters. As the sires OF
useful Business horses. and driving horses
the ideal general purpose horse-tney
have been most uniformly successful.
Gen. Knox il the sire of the following
sons and daughters which have made
records of 2 80 or better; Lady Maud,
|3:I8 IA: Connors, 2:19 3-4; lndepen-
dence. 2:211-4: Victor. 2:23; Knox Boy,
3 % I-2: Peaceful, 2 20; Gilbreth Knox,
3 :26 81; Emperor William. 2 :N IL;
Messenger Knox. 2:30; Harry Spanker,
9 30. The sons of Gen. Knox which
sired 2:3O performers are: Gilbreth
Knox. :26 34), which sired Capitola.
2 20 10. Charles R.. 2:27; Hambleto-
MAN Knox, 2 :29; Gilbreth Maid, 2:29;i
I,othair. 2 80 1-2; Gen. Knox. Jr. Clark
insl. sire of Wallace. 2:29; Col. Ellis
worth. sire of Arthur T.. 2 80; Emperor.
william q :27 1-2) sire of Frank F., 2 :26
IA: General Lightfoot g 81 LAY. sire OF
Shadow (same as Aver, 2 :28; jules Jnra-
gensen, sire of Iron Age, 2:19 IA; Nelly
Walton. 1926 1-2; Lon Morris. sire OF
Kitty Morris. $50; Phil Sheridan = 81
3-4), sire of Fanny NJ, 2: 29 IA. Whale
bone Knox sired John S. Head. ~ IA.
Gen. Knox also sired the dams of George
o., pa IA; Tommy Norwood. ? :26 IL;
Bay, 2 :27 1-2; Cunard, 2.30. Col. Ellis
worth sired the dam of Pilot Knox, 2:19
ga; and Gilbreth Knox of the PAGER,
Benny, 2:44. Howe's Bismarck (2:35)
sired Champion Knox, and he sired Black
smith. 2 80, and Mt. Vernon, 2 :26 1-2.
Gen. Knox was foaled in 1855, brought
to Maine in 1858, and sold to II. n. Smith,
proprietor OF Fashion Stock Farm. in
1872 for $4,000. 1t is noticeable fact
that though it is now more than thirteen
wears since he lett Maine, he has sired
nothing in that time which has acquired a
record of 2 80 or better. All his repre-
sentatives in the so-called charmed cir
cle," were sired in Maine. 1t is evident,
think. that Maine was the place to have
kept him for although he has been mated
with some of the finest mares money
could procure, the results have not been,
apparently, in any near degree so sue
cessful as was his service in this State.
Would he now have been represented by
as many 9 80 performers as Volunteer,
or even old Hambletonian himself, if he
could have been permitted to have ended
BILE. Maine should never have allowed
him to have left her borders. He is still
alive, and at last accounts, for horse of
his age. wonderfully well preserved and
vigorous.
WINTHROP MORRILL,.
After Gen. Knox this horse sired more
2 80 performers than any other horse in
Maine. He was bay. fifteen and one
half hands high, foaled in 1855, bred in
Barre, VT, sired by Young Morrill,. dam
by a grandson of Sherman Morgan. In
1862 he was first brought to Maine, and in
1871 he was sold to Boston parties. After
wards he was brought back, and made
two or three seasons before his death,
which occurred few years since at an
advanced age. His $50 list comprises
the following: Honest Harry, % l-2;
Gypsy, 2:24 IA; Ben Morrill,, 1927;
Ed Getchell. 2:27; Uncle Abe
2:27; Sam Curtis, 2:2s; Fleetwood.
2 :28; J. G. Morrill,, 2:29; Modoc, 2:2S;
Baby Boy, 2:29. His service was OF less
duration and not so extensive as that of
General Knox, but he is represented by
but one less in the 2 80 list. They how
ever do not average so fast, nor were his
produce so sound IN feet and limbs as
were the Knoxes. They were great road
sters and their disposition was to do more
than they had the constitution to carry out.
His sons have not been successful as pro-
ducers of speed. and but few are doing
service in the State. The most likely one
! 10 &ko h,ox oh aI,o,
2:314. which though as yet unrepresented
in the 2 80 list, has sired several speedy
horses. Mazeppa. by Winthrop Morrill,,
sired the bay gelding Slippery Dick.
which got record of 2 80 the past sea-
son. John Mills, five year-old gelding,
by Winthrop Morrill,, trotted this summer
in 1921, and showed speed enough to
beat 80. He also sired the dam of the
speedy trotter. and sire of trotters, DIR.
Franklin, which horse will be more par
ticuarly noticed in subsequent article
THE FEARNAUGHTs.
This family, never large, is probably
more numerous in Maine than elsewhere
In 1872, think, the Fearnaught Farm
was established at Manchester, this State
and it is also the impression of the writer
that the original Fearnaught horse made
several seasons in Maine in the years
previous thereto. As this family will be
mentioned in another article more particu-
larly, it be sufficient to say that as fami.
ly, they are very speedy and are the beau
ideal gentleman's driving horse.
There have been other families in Maine
which have acquired more or less distinc-
ton in their day, but those above noticed
have become the best-known and most
successful. The Patchens have been best
represented here by Tom Patchen, son of
George NJ. Patchen, and sire of Jack
Spratt g :27D, the very successful and
speedy gelding which trotted so success
fully this year. Tom Patchen also sired
King Patchen, the sire of the speedy New
Hampshire horse. Forest Patchen, 2:194
Detective Patchen, by Star Patchen. was
very uniform sire of speed, his fastest
representative being Patch, :291.
Now all these old-time families are Civ
ing way, some slowly others quite rapid
| ly, before the onward march OF the Ham
bletoniau family. 1t may be that in this
Maine will be loser-many there are
here that will tell you so-but still it is
none the less true that the Hambletonian
is even now the dominant and most popu-
lar trotting family in Maine to day, and it
is fact that Maine has more well bred
representatives of that family than all the