This post features a Hoof Beats Magazine article from 1939. Its topic: Jim Butler and the Butler Head Numbers!
On January 14, I visited with John Butler in his Lewiston home. John is 93. He goes to work everyday for two hours. In the mid-1930’s his uncle Jim Butler invented the Butler Head Numbers. When John came back from World War II his uncle asked him to join the company. John first day of work was…
This article and the images are copyrighted December 2014 by Glenn W. Gibbons and The Lost Trotting Parks Heritage Center. From S. Dexter — I met Glenn Gibbons at the Cornish Historic Fairgrounds a couple of years ago during the Cornish Horsemen’s Day. I was playing a song I had written called, “The Story of a Maine…
This issue of the American Horse Breeders features an image of Waterville Maine’s champion trotting stallion, Nelson 4209. Nelson was foaled in 1882 and became a world’s champion trotting stallion in the early 1890. The image was taken from a photo of Nelson at the Readville Trotting Park in Massachusetts. Nelson had been retired from racing in…