44 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



and strain upon the mind was terrible. We 

 knew that it was coming so as to shake the 

 very pillars of the earth, but we rode on ; and 

 until it rattled over our heads we were silent. 

 Then in the black darkness, as we went side 

 by side, we would exchange cautions." Lady 

 Suffolk had been ruled out for not winning a 

 heat in three, and Spicer, who was driving 

 Americus, gradually drew away from Dutchman, 

 who slipped in the heavy footing. 



Lady Suffolk started in 138 races and won 

 88 of them and received forfeit three times. It 

 was at Beacon Course, Hoboken, New Jersey, 

 October 13, 1845, that she trotted to a record 

 of 2.29^. She was driven by David Bryan, and 

 the time was made in the second heat of a five- 

 heat race with Moscow. This record was re- 

 duced to 2.28 in the third heat of a race at 

 Centreville, Long Island, July 2, 1849. Her 

 saddle record of 2.26 was made at Boston, June 

 14, 1849, in a race with Mac and Gray Trouble. 

 After 1853 she was retired to Bridport, Ver- 

 mont, and bred to Black Hawk. The foal was 

 prematurely born. David Bryan died in 1851, 

 and Lady Suffolk followed him into the un- 

 known March 7, 1854. Her skin was stuffed 



