Throughout the Years More than 100 Maine Towns Supported Trotting Parks

Follow the link below to the Lost Trotting Parks Heritage Center and read the 1885 article by Townsend on the American trotting horse.

The American Trotting Horse by James B. Townsend -- Published 1885

Kennebec County could be considered the cradle of Maine's trotting horse industry. The horse breeders of Kennebec County maintained high profile stables and stallions whose get were highly prized. The talk across the State of Maine would have included talking about the bloodlines of the carriage horses that pulled their owners to the market place and to social gatherings. Everyone loved a fast horse. From this love came the brushes on the roadways and the building of trotting tracks at Maine's Fairgrounds.