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Peter Whelan. It resulted in a race of tliree heats. The 

 lady won the first in 5m. 29s. The second heat was a very 

 severe one. The last mile they were head-and-head nearly 

 all the way ; and, after a desperate struggle home, Battler 

 just won by eight inches. Nothing hut the fine riding of 

 Peter Whelan, who was a splendid horseman, enabled Bat- 

 tler to snatch this heat from Lady Suffolk. Bryant now 

 came to me, and asked me to ride. I told him, that, in my 

 opinion, the mare could not win ; and that if I found it was 

 the case I should not punish her. The truth was, that she 

 had had a little too much of it for a five-year-old ; and, with 

 all her wonderful toughness and elasticity of constitution, 

 she had gone off since she won in 5.15, 5.17. In the third 

 heat with Battler I found she could not win, and took her 

 in hand on the second mile. He won it in 5.40, and she 

 was distanced. We had another race that day, in which I 

 drove Dutchman ; but that is nothing to the purpose here, 

 except to say that Lady Suffolk's next race was with him 

 and Battler. It was at the Beacon, on the 1st of October, 

 two-mile heats, under saddle. The Lady was distanced the 

 first heat in 5.17. 



On the 8th, Bryant had her out again to trot two-mile 

 heats in harness, against Awful, also at the Beacon. Aw- 

 ful beat her in 5.28, 5.21J. On the 15th, at the same 

 place, the Lady again trotted two-mile heats in harness, 

 this time against Napoleon, a big bay gelding, Cato, a 

 brown gelding, and Ion. Napoleon won in three heats, 

 5.42, 5.38, 5.39. Cato won the second heat. Bryant 

 drove Lady Suffolk in the first and second heats ; and then, 

 according to his usual practice when there was no chance 

 left, he came and invited me to drive. The track was heavy 

 in this race. This was on the 15th. Two days afterwards, 

 Bryant had her in Philadelphia, and then and there trotted 

 her two-mile heats under saddle, on the Hunting-park 

 Course, against Polly Smallfry and Madame Royal. The 

 gray mare won it in two heats, in 5.18, 5.26. The next 



