222 THE TROTTING-UOESE OF AMERICA. 



November, trotted her four-mile heats under saddle, against 

 Ellen Jewett, a little bay mare. The gray mare took the 

 lead in each heat, and was never headed. She won in llm. 

 22s., llm. 34s. That very same day, Bryant actually trotted 

 her mile heats, three in five, in harness, against Indepen- 

 dence. The latter was a chestnut gelding and a good horse. 

 lie had not great speed then ; but he afterwards came here, 

 and got to be very fast. He beat the Lady in 2m. 45|s., 

 2m. 45s., 2m. 47s. Even this was not enough for Bryant. 

 He trotted her the same race against Independence the 

 next day, and got her beat again as he deserved. But she 

 won two heats the second and third in this second race. 

 The time of the five was 2m. 52s., 2m. 53s., 2m. 49s., 2m. 

 47s., 2m. 50s. That ended her racing for the year, and there 

 is no need to recapitulate her performances. 



She had again proved herself as hard as steel and as tough 

 us whalebone ; and Bryant had given another notable speci- 

 men or two of his reckless and foolhardy way of carrying on 

 a campaign. At Philadelphia he trotted her three days in 

 succession. On the first of them, four two-mile heats ; on 

 the second, three two-mile heats ; on the third, mile heats, 

 all in harness. Then at Boston he trots her four-mile heats, 

 and mile heats, three in five, in harness, on the same day ; 

 and mile heats, three in five, in harness, on the following 

 day ; and in this last there were five heats. 



Lady Suffolk had now been two years on the turf. She 

 commenced in 1840 on the 6th of May, by trotting two-mile 

 heats under saddle, at the Hunting-park Course, Philadel- 

 phia, against Dutchman. The bay horse beat her in two 

 good heats, 5m. 5s., 5m. 6s. Two days afterwards, they 

 trotted three-mile heats under saddle, over the same course ; 

 and Dutchman was again victorious, making the heats in 

 7m. 51s. each. It was rather a singular circumstance that 

 they should have been just alike in time. In less than a 

 week after these two hard losing races, Bryant trotted Lady 

 Suffolk on the Centreville Course, Long Island, against 



