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C.H. Nelson — Fame & Glory — Shame & Redemption — The Story of Nelson 4209 — Maine’s 1890 Champion Trotting Stallion

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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 &…

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The LifeWork of Jean Emerson — Member of the New England Harness Writers Hall of Fame and Inducted into the Harness Racing Hall Museum’s Communicators Hall of Fame

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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…

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The Points of the Horse — Third Edition — First Published in the 19th Century

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In the 19th and early 20th centuries authors wrote extensively about the mechanics of the horse, the history of the horse, and celebrated the trotters and pacers of the period. This book written Captain Hayes is representative that period. The section on trotters and pacers features Rydsyk’s Hambletonian, John R Gentry, Cresceus, Arion, Star Pointer, Lou Dillon,…

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Maine’s Champion Trotting Stallion — Nelson 4209 — Crowned King of the Stallions in 1892

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Nelson 4209 was crowned the King of the Stallions in 1892. In September of 1890, Charles Horace Nelson, the owner of Nelson, traveled to the mid-west where Nelson completed in time trials. These efforts resulted in setting the world’s record for trotting stallions. During this period, time trials for champion caliber horses occurred quite often. Records recorded one…

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