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The Trotter Dutchman. Description of him. Pedigree doubtful. 

 Dutchman and Locomotive. Dutchman and Yankee Doodle. Dutch- 

 man, Fanny Pullen, and Confidence. Dutchman and Lady Slipper. 

 Dutchman, Lady Warrenton, Teamboat, and Norman Leslie. Dutch- 

 man and Greenwich Maid. Dutchman and Washington. Dutchman, 

 Lady Suffolk, and Battler. Description of Lady Suffolk and Rattler. 



I SHALL now give a sketch of one of the most famous 

 trotters that ever was known. I speak of Dutchman, 

 who, for the combined excellences of speed, bottom, and 

 constitutional vigor, equal to the carrying on of a long 

 campaign and improving on it, has had few if any equals, 

 and certainly no superior. His time for three miles still 

 stands the best on the record. Flora Temple and General 

 Butler, both horses of great speed and bottom, tried to beat 

 it, but failed ; and yet it was not up to the highest mark 

 that Dutchman could have made that day. But of this feat 

 I shall speak as it comes along in the order of his perform- 

 ances, before entering on which it will be proper to give 

 some idea of his appearance. Dutchman was a bay gelding, 

 fifteen hands three inches high, very powerfully made, with 

 every part clean cut, and the very best of legs and feet. 

 He was raised in New Jersey; but I never knew his 

 pedigree, nor ever met any one who did. This is to be 

 regretted ; for he was a horse of such great stamp and high 

 courage, that it would be interesting to know at least a little 

 of the sources from which he sprang. This, however, we 

 never can know. I have seen letters which purported to 

 give his pedigree, but have never met with an account which 

 at all satisfied me, or corresponded with that which was said 



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