242 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



Dimmock, who lived when a boy with Mr. Stevens of New 

 Jersey, and used to ride the race-horse Henry at exercise, 

 after he bought him. He used to exercise him on the sandy 

 roads, and, I am informed, says he believes Henry could 

 then trot a mile in three minutes. This was good for the 

 horse that beat Eclipse a four-mile heat ; and it is interesting 

 and important from the fact that Henry got the dam of 

 American Star, whose stock all trot and can almost all stay. 

 It shows that the trotting faculty was inherent in the blood 

 of Henry. I should have been less surprised to hear that 

 Eclipse could trot a mile in three minutes ; for he was a 

 grandson of Messenger, being out of his daughter, Miller's 

 Damsel. 



In this race at the Centreville, there were five heats. The 

 Lady won the first and second in 2m. 32s., 2m. 32^s. ; 

 Jack Bossiter second in the first heat, and last in the second. 

 The third and fourth heats, Pelham won in 2m. 38s., 2m. 

 29^s. The fifth heat was won by the Lady in 2m. 34s., 

 Pelham second. Back now to the Union, where, on the 9th, 

 Lady Suffolk went agaiust Mac, mile heats, three in five, 

 under the saddle, and was beaten in four heats. She won 

 the first and fastest in 2m. 28s. The time of the others was 

 2m. 30s., 2m. 31s., 3m. 30s. On the 10th of July, the 

 Lady went two-mile heats under saddle, against Mac and 

 Jack Rossiter. Mac won in two heats ; the Lady being last 

 in the first, and then drawn. The time was 5m. 9s., 5m. 

 18s. On the 3d of August, at the Centreville Course, the 

 Lady and Lady Sutton had one of the best, longest, and 

 most obstinate struggles that there is on record. Pelham 

 was in with them. It was mile heats, three in five, in har- 

 ness. Isaac Woodruff drove Lady Sutton, and Harry Jones 

 Pelham. Bryant drove Lady Suffolk. The contest may be 

 said to have been altogether between the mares ; for Pelham 

 was last in the first and second heats, and distanced in the 

 third. The first and second heats were won by the gray 

 mare in 2m. 29^s., 2m. 31s. The thirc} and fourth were 



