216 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



day, the 18th, Lady Suffolk was trotted again ; this time 

 three-mile heats under saddle, and against Rattler, Lady 

 Victory (formerly the Virginia Mare), and Ben Franklin. 

 Eattler won in 8.11, 8.17. The track was heavy. 



On the 22d, Bryant had Lady Suffolk back at the Beacon 

 again, where he trotted her two-mile heats under saddle, 

 against Dutchman and Rattler. As I was sick, Peter 

 Whelan rode Dutchman, and William Whelan at this time 

 had Rattler. Bryant rode the Lady. Dutchman won in 

 5.38, 5.52. The track was heavy. Lady Suffolk's owner 

 was not yet content with her season's work. On the 24th, 

 he trotted her mile-heats, three in five, in harness, against 

 Dutchman. The mare was unsteady, and no wonder. She 

 broke up several times ; and I distanced her the first heat 

 in 2m. 49s. 



Thus late in season, within a month and a day of 

 Christmas, the work of the young gray mare for her first 

 season of fifteen on the turf had come to a close. She had 

 trotted eleven races, two of mile heats, eight of two-mile 

 heats, and one of three-mile heats. For a five-year old 

 mare, this was an immense amount of fast work ; and it is 

 to be remembered that her opponents were not middling 

 horses, but some of the best that ever appeared on the trot- 

 ting-turf. Dutchman, Rattler, Awful, &c., were the com- 

 petitors of this young mare in her first season. But 

 although Lady Suffolk received no apparent injury from 

 the number of her arduous exploits, the example set by 

 Bryant in trotting her so much is not one to be followed. 

 Indeed, I recommend that it shall be carefully avoided ; for 

 the mare's escape from evils which might reasonably have 

 been expected to follow was purely exceptional. Such an 

 amount of trotting with elder horses of first-rate powers 

 would ruin an ordinary five-year-old ; and it was only 

 because Lady Suffolk was " a horse above ordinances," like 

 English Eclipse, that she was enabled to stand it with ap- 

 parent impunity. Therefore, while remembering her aston- 



