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Centreville. The Lady won in two heats, 5m. 12s., 5m. 

 14s. On the 17th, at the same course, Lady Suffolk and 

 Lady Sutton went mile heats, three in five, in harness. Lady 

 Suffolk won in three heats, 2m. 31s., 2m. 32s., 2m. 32. 

 On the 22d, she went two-mile heats against James K. Polk, 

 she in harness, the pacer to a wagon weighing 2201bs. 

 A close, desperate race of four heats followed. The Lady 

 won the first heat in 5m. 22s. Then the pacer took a heat 

 in 5m. 16s. The third heat was dead in 5m. 17s. ; and the 

 fourth heat the Lady won in 5rn. 16s. With the weight 

 behind him, the pacer, although defeated, must be held to 

 have been an uncommonly good horse that day. 



Having, perhaps, acquired a taste for the fragrant waters 

 and other pleasant follies of the mountain springs last year, 

 Lady Suffolk again left the briny shores of her native island 

 to visit Saratoga in the height of summer-time. It was not 

 with as good results as before ; for here the accident befel 

 which compelled Bryant to let her up for the balance of the 

 year. The trot was mile heats in harness, between Lady 

 Suffolk, Lady Moscow, and the gelding Moscow. Lady 

 Suffolk won the first heat, but pulled up lame from having 

 sprained her ankle. Nevertheless, Bryant started her for 

 the second heat ; but, before she had gone far, the mare was 

 so lame that her driver was compelled to bring her to a 

 stand-still, and the others went on and finished the race. It 

 was won by the bay mare in four heats. Lady Suffolk trot- 

 ted no more that year ; and some thought, as she was led 

 limping away on three legs, that the trotting-turf had seen 

 the last of her. But this was a great mistake. The injury 

 was not permanent; and the rest gave her wonderfully 

 strong and elastic constitution a chance to restore the tone 

 of her system. She recovered to such a purpose, that, the 

 next year, she trotted no fewer than twenty races, as we 

 shall presently see. 



