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a good horse. It was two-mile heats in harness, and a very 

 fine race ensued. They all got a heat, but Lady Victory 

 won. She took the first, Lafayette the second, Suffolk the 

 third ; and in the fourth " Uncle George " came again with 

 Lady Victory, and won. The time was 5.28, 5.31, 5.32, 

 5.42. A match between the two mares grew out of this 

 race ; and the next day they trotted it over again. It was 

 a near thing, but Suffolk's great recuperative powers enabled 

 her to stay the longest. She won the first heat in 5m. 38s. ; 

 Lady Victory got the second in 5m. 35s. j but Suffolk secured 

 the third in 5m. 40s. Here were seven two-mile heats by 

 these mares trotted in two days, and still Bryant thought 

 the Long-Island mare had not had enough. He went off 

 and matched her to trot mile heats against Lafayette the 

 next day, he to carry two in a buggy, and she to go in 

 harness. The buggy weighed 1121bs. ; Mr. Duffy, the 

 driver, 1501bs. ; and his friend llllbs. This was 3731bs. 

 Lafayette beat the Lady in 2m. 52s. and 2m. 50s. ; she 

 being stiff and sore and utterly unfit to trot. 



She had a rest through the month of September, and on 

 the 3d of October came out on the Beacon to trot two-mile 

 heats in harness, against Henry, Celeste, and Cato. Henry 

 was a handsome chestnut gelding in the stable of Harry 

 Jones. Celeste was a flea-bitten gray mare in mine. Hen- 

 ry won the first heat in 5m. 28s j Lady Suffolk took the 

 next in the same time, and the third in 5.26 ; thus winning 

 the race. The next week the same horses, together with 

 Don Juan, trotted two-mile heats in harness, on the Cen- 

 treville. Harry won this in 5m. 20s., 5m. 28s. I was 

 second with Celeste, and Lady Suffolk was distanced in the 

 second heat ; but this was caused by my having run into 

 her, and upset her sulky. 



On the 23d of October she went two-mile heats under 

 saddle against Don Juan on the Beacon, and beat him 

 handily in 5m. 14s., 5m. 24s. Bryant now took her to 

 Boston; and at the Cambridge Course, on the 15th of 



