202 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



The next season, in April, Kenible Jackson was matched 

 against the Nelson colt, three-mile heats in harness, for 

 $500 a side. It was the first trot that spring on the Union 

 Course, and the track was very heavy. Kemble Jackson 

 won it in two heats, 9m. 06s., 8m. 49s. On the 20th of Oc- 

 tober following, he fulfilled another match. It was three- 

 mile heats to 2501b. wagons, against Black Harry, for $1000 

 a side, and was trotted on the Union Course. James Whelp- 

 ley drove the stallion ; and George Nelson, Black Harry. The 

 latter won it in 8m. 38s., 8m. 41s. In 1852, Kemble trotted 

 but one race. This came off on the 28th of October, on the 

 Union Course. It was three-mile heats in harness, for a 

 purse of $500, $100 to the second horse. O'Blenis, Kem- 

 ble Jackson, Lady Brooks, and Pelham were in it ; and they 

 ended in the order named. . O'Blenis won in two heats, and 

 Pelham was distanced. Kemble Jackson secured second 

 money. The time was 8m. 52s., Srn. 53s. In the spring 

 of 1853, Kemble was in the hands of Charles Brooks, and 

 made his first trot on the Centre ville Course, April 21, for 

 a purse of $150, mile heats. 



In 1853, in April, Kemble Jackson came out again, and 

 trotted mile-heats, best three in five, to wagons, against J. 

 Nodine's chestnut mare Mountain Maid, and a bay gelding 

 called Flash. Mountain Maid won the first heat in 2m. 

 47s., and the second in 2m. 50s. The stallion was second 

 in these heats, driven by Charles Brooks ; and I was then 

 asked by Mr. Reynolds to get in and drive him. I did so, 

 and won the third heat in 2m. 34s. The fourth heat was 

 dead between Kemble and Mountain Maid, in 2m. 36s., and 

 the fifth she won. 



The stallion was then sent to me to be handled ; and, in 

 order to prevent him from throwing down his head between 

 his knees when he broke, the well-known Kemble-Jackson 

 check, since in use all over this country, and introduced in 

 England also, was invented. It answered well in this case, 



