146 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



a long and eventful connection between us. At the first 

 of it we did not meet with success; but I knew, that, if he 

 kept on, it would be sure to come. He was then ten years 

 old ; and his first trot in my hands was against Greenwich 

 Maid, a bay mare, fifteen hands high. 



The race was two-mile heats, in harness, over the Beacon 

 Course, New Jersey ; and the mare won it in two heats, 

 the best of which was 5m. 16s. Shortly afterwards, Dutch- 

 man trotted two-mile heats against Washington over the 

 same course. Washington was a gray gelding, sixteen 

 hands high, very speedy, but having the peculiarity that he 

 would go all to pieces if not checked up close. He also 

 beat Dutchman in two heats ; and the best of them was 

 5m. 16s., as Greenwich Maid's had been. 



The same year Dutchman went for a purse over the Beacon 

 Course against Lady Suffolk and Rattler, two-mile heats, 

 under saddle. Eattler was a bay gelding, fifteen hands 

 high, a fast and stout horse, though light-waisted, and deli- 

 cate in appetite and constitution. At that time he would 

 sometimes only eat six quarts of oats a day ; and the trainer 

 was doing uncommonly well when he got nine quarts into 

 him. He was afterwards taken to England, and, take him 

 for all in all, was the best American trotter that ever went 

 there. William Whelan went over with him, but not 

 before we had some desperate struggles between him and 

 Dutchman. 



Lady Suffolk was a gray mare about fifteen hands and an 

 inch. She was got by Engineer, son of imported Messen- 

 ger, and was certainly a tremendous mare, well worthy of 

 her illustrious descent. She was bred on Long Island, in 

 Suffolk County, and thus got the name of Lady Suffolk. 

 When she was three years old, David Bryan bought her of 

 the farmer who raised her, for ninety dollars. In the race 

 of which I am now writing, Bryan rode Lady Suffolk, Bill 

 Whelan rode Rattler, and I rode Dutchman. We won it 

 in two heats, of 5.11-5.13. 



