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…

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,…

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…

John R Braden, a pacer that found fame in the 1920’s racing in Aroostook County and throughout the State of Maine,  was purchased by a club in Presque Isle, Maine. This purchase proved so successful that other Aroostook County towns (Caribou and Houlton) purchased pacers to dethrone the Aroostook County Champion. The storyboard below presents an article…