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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...Briggs), of the Defiance stock. Mr. Littlefield refused $450 for the above colt, when four months old. PRINCE ALBERT. Black colt, foaled in 1872, owned by C. H. Skinner, St. Albans, Me., got by Emperor William, dam, English. JOHN KNOX. Gray colt, foaled in 1871, owned-by C. H. Skinner, St. Albans, Me., got by Skinner's Knox, by Gen. Knox, dam, Maggie, a trotting mare, of Messenger descent. HONEST JOHN, Jk. Gray colt, foaled Sept. 14,1871, owned by J. H. Getchell, Somerset Mills, got by Honest John, by Gilbreth Knox, dam, of Messenger descent. J. H. GILBRETH. Bay colt, with black points, foaled May 15,1S72, owned by J. H. Getchell, Somerset Mills, got by Gilbreth Knox, dam of Messenger descent. JOAQUIN. Black colt, foaled July 31,1873, bred by Luke Hilton, Skowhegan, Me., got by Black Sultan, dam, Morgan and English. BRUTUS. Bay colt, foaled May 1, 1873, owned by A. P. Mero, j Union, Me., got by Gen. Warren, by Gen. Knox, dam, a thoroughbred mare, brought from the South. MIDDY MORGAN. Bay colt, with black points, foaled May 9,1871, bred by Granville Hackett, West New Portland, Me., got by Larkin's Gen. Knox, jr., dam by Sandy Eiver horse. EASTERN QUEEN. Dark bay mare, almost brown, with white star in forehead, 15J hands high, and weighed 1070 pounds at three years of age, foaled April 28,1870, bred by Ivory Low, of Fairfield, Me., got by Gilbreth Knox, dam, by Old Witherell. Low sold her, in the Spring of 1870, to J. M. Fogg, of Fairfield, and at the Maine State Fair of 1873, at Bangor, she won the race for three-year-olds in two straight heats, the fastest being 3.01. INDEPENDENT KNOX (crockett's). Brown colt, with star in forehead, and one white hind foot, foaled July 4,1871, bred by Robert Crockett, Rockland, Me., got by Gen. Berry, dam, an imported thoro...
