160 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



" Look out, Hiram," Spicer would say, " or we shall be 

 into each other." 



A few strides farther on, and I would sing out, " Take 

 care, George : you must be close to me." 



Now, the noise of the wheels and the tramp of the 

 horses could not be heard in the roar of the wind and the 

 patter of the rain, and yet our voices could be and were. 

 For a mile and a half, in the very centre, as it were, of this 

 Titanic war of the skyey elements, we went side by side. 

 Then Dutchman lost ground. The track was clayey, and 

 he, having on flat shoes, began to slip and slide at every 

 stride. Americus gradually drew away from him ; and, 

 when I reached the stand at the end of the second mile, I 

 stopped. I have seen a great many summer storms in my 

 time, and have been out in not a few of them ; but, of all 

 that I remember, none quite equalled, in terrific fury and 

 awful grandeur, that which burst over the Beacon Course 

 just as we began that heat. Spicer says the same. 



After this great race upon the Beacon Course, I took the 

 old horse to Baltimore, and trotted him three-mile heats 

 over the Kendall Course, against the pacer Oneida Chief 

 and Lady Suffolk. To the best of my knowledge, that was 

 the last appearance of Dutchman upon a race-course, and 

 he was then fifteen years old. The pacer beat us handily 

 that day, and Lady Suffolk was second. Dutchman was 

 then sold to Mr. George Janeway of New York, who after- 

 wards purchased Eifle, and drove them together in double 

 harness as his private team. 



In 1846, after Mr. Janeway had owned him and used 

 him on the road about three years, Dutchman had another 

 trot in public, going with Rifle in double harness against a 

 team from Brooklyn. It was the length of the road from 

 the New- York pavement at Twenty-eighth Street, to Brad- 

 shaw's at Harlem, to carry two men in each wagon. I 

 drove the old stavers, Dutchman and Kifle ; and we won it 

 easily, beating them some three hundred yards. So these 



