42 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Jersey, June 22, 1838, she was fairly launched 

 on her racing career. She defeated Lady Vic- 

 tory, Black Hawk, Cato, and Sarah Puff, two- 

 mile heats, and the best time was 5.15. She 

 trotted at Philadelphia, Boston, Centreville, Balti- 

 more, Providence, Rochester, Buffalo, Cincinnati, 

 St. Louis, and elsewhere during her long career, 

 and defeated such horses as Don Juan, Awful, 

 Oneida Chief, Hector, James K. Polk, Pelham, 

 Lady Moscow, Jack Rossiter, and Dutchman. 

 The latter was a powerful, strong-going horse of 

 15.3 hands, picked up in a brickyard at Phila- 

 delphia, and after holding his own with such trot- 

 ters as Awful, Rattler, and Lady Suffolk, he made 

 at Beacon Course, August i, 1839, a record of 

 three miles under saddle of 7.32. His rider on 

 that occasion was Hiram Woodruff, the most 

 famous of early trainers and drivers. Dutchman 

 died in 1847. Charles J. Foster, who wrote for 

 Hiram Woodruff " The Trotting Horse of Amer- 

 ica," threw plenty of color into the description of 

 a race between Dutchman, Americus, and Lady 

 Suffolk: "With the last flicker of day the swift 

 scud began to fly overhead, and the solid-seeming 

 clouds to tower up and come on like moving 

 mountains. It was dark when we got into our 



