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Suffolk, Americus, Don Juan and Washington, and generally came 

 off victorious. On May 31, 1842, on the Hunting Park Course, 

 two-mile heats, he defeated Lady Suffolk in the quick time of 5m. 

 7s., 5m 15s., 5m. 17s. Suffolk won the second heat, and Ripton 

 was first in the last heat by six inches only. 



On October 20, 1848, Trustee, a son of imported Trustee, out 

 of Fanny Pullen, a celebrated trotting mare, in a match against 

 time over the Union Course, Long Island, trotted twenty miles in 

 59 ni. 35} s. without breaking once, coming in on the last mile 

 apparently as fresh as when he started, and trotting the last mile 

 in 2 m. 51 J s., the fastest of the race. This has since been sur- 

 passed by Controller, Captain McGowan and John Stewart; but 

 Trustee's performance was many years in advance of the others, 

 and was undoubtedly a great one. 



But the brightest star of the trotting firmament, and the great 

 favorite of the sporting fraternity at this time, was the old gray 

 mare Lady Suffolk. She was foaled in 1833, and was by En- 

 gineer 2d, a grandson of Messenger, and was closely inbred to the 

 gray on her dam's side. She was a gray, about fifteen hands one 

 inch high, with a bloodlike head, deep in the chest and long in the 

 body, good muscular shoulders and legs of iron. Her career at 

 first was not successful, and gave but little promise of her after 

 brilliancy. The Lady's first public appearance was on a very cold 

 day in February, 1838, at Babylon, N. Y., where she trotted for a 

 purse of eleven dollars, and won it after three heats, the fastest of 

 which was in three minutes. In her next race, June 20th, at the 

 Beacon Course, she was beaten in poor time ; but two days after- 

 wards, at the same place, she won a trot of two-mile heats, under 

 the saddle, beating Lady Victory, a horse of some local fame, in 

 5 m. 15 s. and 5 m. 17 s. She was then beaten by Battler, 

 Awful, and Napoleon, all of them races of two-mile heats; and 

 October 17th, she beat Polly Smallfry and Madame Royal, two- 

 mile heats, in 5 m. 18 s. and 5 m. 20 s. Rattler then beat her 

 three-mile heats, and the famous Dutchman beat her two races, 

 two-mile and mile heats respectively. In 1839 she trotted twelve 

 races, eight of which were two-mil^ heats, and one of four- mile 

 heats, winning six and losing six. In 1840 she first lost two races 

 of two-miles heats and three-miles heats respectively to the mighty 

 Dutchman, and then in less than a week after these two severe 

 races, she beat Celeste and Napoleon, at the Centreville Course, 

 two-mile heats. June 30th, she beat Bonaparte easily, at the Cen- 

 treville, four-mile heats, in 11 m. 15 s. and 11 m. 58 s. She then 

 lay by until September 21st, when she beat Aaron Burr, two-mile 

 heats, at the Beacon Course, and three days later she added to her 

 growing fame by beating Dutchman, two-mile heats, under saddle, 

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