Monthly Archives: March 2015
All histories of the trotting horse in America will tell you that Orange County in New York was the “cradle of the trotter”. This claim is a valid one given the fact that most trotting horses (Standardbreds) today trace their origin to “Rysdyk’s Hambletonian” who was foaled (1849) in Orange County and stood for service there from…
This post by Don Daniels presents stories and images beginning in the 19th Century to the 1950’s.
Don Daniels posted the contents of this storyboard to Facebook earlier today. I thank Don for his permission to post his content on Lost Trotting Parks.
The attached article, The Secrets of Sunnyside Farm, was written early in my development of the Lost Trotting Parks Heritage Center. It focuses on the life of C.H. Nelson and his farmed called Sunnyside. At the end of his life in 1915, Nelson was taken to the National Soldiers’ Home in Togus. His wife, Emma, had suffered…
In early 2012 I decided that I would create a 19th century styled periodical that would be distributed over the Internet as a PDF document. This post allows readers to take a look at the first issue. My intention is to find sponsors who would providing fund that would result in a 20 page issue that would…
In the late 19th century until his death in 1909, Nelson 4209 was perhaps Maine’s most famous and beloved horse. This was always true of the horse, but not its owner. This attached PDF document tells the story of once a famous horseman, Charles Horace Nelson. Click this link to view the story of C.H. Nelson &…
Lost Trotting Parks presents the March-April 2013 Issues of S. Dexter’s Maine Spirit of the Turf. This 62 page PDF document features Single G, the horse that time forgot. Click here to view the March-April Issue of the Maine Spirit
In 2012 The Lost Trotting Parks Heritage Center published its June Issue of S.Dexter’s Maine Spirit of the Turf. This issue celebrated the LifeWork of Jean Emerson, publisher and editor of the Northeast Harness News. Jean with her husband Chet competed with their Standardbreds at race tracks throughout the State of Maine. The link below will take…
