New Britain herald., 1919-03-22

AoaIed in Vermont iT k 4 W lsss-sszk lssy Allnaax was reached by pung Rolfe @vben he got the champion stallion
 Nelson. Tn the interval representa- 1 Hives of Maine families were scattered #an over the country, few or the @ )rews being taken to California, Nap N,cklish, the fastest representative or
 Ahe Rising Sun family, to llllnols
 Hthile Shepherd F. Knapp by the @gaton horse was taken to Europe' f1e AFoa a race at Paris in 1864
 Before these horses appeared, Ped- @bam drifted from Gardner on the
 #Sennebec river to the Long Island A racks, where in 1849 he reduced the Worlds record to 2:28 in a race with SI ,adv Suffolk, whose mark of H2 .29 1-2 had remained unbeaten for -four years. Mac, another Maine bred sfrotter, was also prominent at that afiae. He was by Morgan Caesar out of a mare by Bush Messenger and was owned by John MacArdle ot Al abany. This horse won 21 races and made a. record of 2:2s in 1853.
 The trotttng horse industry in Maine, however, antedates Pelhafn and Mac. It was started with an in- heritance back of it in 1922 at Nor ridgewock where Lion was foaled. He was bred by the Rev. Samuel B. Witherell, who also bred Witherell, the sire of Belle of Portland that < trotted in 2:26 in 1881, while Belle s Strickland, 2:26, was also inbred to
 < him. Tn 1929 Benjamin Hodge ot FIalIowel1 purchased Lion and took him to Boston, where he sold him foi s4oO. a tremendous price for a road Hshorse at that period. There were nc # frotting tracks in Boston i'll those days but Lion was raced on the roac and defeated everything he met.
 Fanny Pullen, the next fast trotte1 bv Winthrop Messenger, was foaled II 1925 at Anson. She reached the NeV York tracks in 1885, when she wo1 two races to saddle over the shor N track at Harlem in 2:35. The follow H Ing year she finished second to Dutch < man in a race at two miles in 5:l1 l.: 8 after which she was bred to imported @ Trustee. Her foaI was also callet 8 Trustee and was the first horse t trot 20 miles within an hour. His tim was 59:35 1-2 while he also. won four miles in 11:06. Daniel D. Tompkins was the nex good trotter by Winthrop Messenger He was foa1ed at Pennington in 183O x Tn 1888 he defeated Rattler over tn @ LentGrVIlI9 course dC IuIS0 IlllSS Il @ 7:59, while he also won from Locomo tive and Fire King at two miles l # 5:1E1-2. His greatest race was trot ted to saddle at Philadelphia in 1So when he defeated the champion Ed win Forrest in a 5000 match at thre miles in 8:07. At that time the hors # was owned by William Feterell C < Philadelphia, where he afterwards az peared in several team races, his mat being Blanc Negre, grandson ( < Winthrop Messenger, that was oWne by C. r. Relf, who afterwards owne and raced another grandson of Wir throp Messenger called Zachary Tay < for. who defeated Tacony, Lady Sui folk and Goliah, a. half brother { Nam primo Chief, and made a recor of 2:31 to harness and 2:29 to saddl Winthrop Morrill, and General Knc proved successful sires in Main Honest Harry was the fastest repr, gentattye of the former while Gener Knox got the 2:2o trottcrs Camo and Lady Maud, before 4enry Smith purchased him for the Fashit Stud farm at Trenton, N. J. His sa in 1872 as we'll as the sales of Youl Rolfe in 1884 and Bingen in IS were the three most serious blo7 that inc trotting industry received Maine While others took their p1ac none of their successors possessed t speed getting qualities which subs quont events showed each of the horses possessed.