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coming off victorious from both in each match of three events. In 

 1851 she was only moderately successful. In 1852 she trotted 

 twelve races, and won but once, and in 1853 she appeared twice, 

 but was defeated in both races. She died at Bridgeport, Yt., 

 on March 7th, 1855. Trotting indiscriminately races of five, 

 four, three, two and one-mile heats, in season and out of season, 

 wretchedly managed and driven, no distance seemed too long for 

 her, nor any exertion too great. An honester, gamer, tougher 

 beast never trod the earth; nothing ever daunted her noble spirit; 

 she never flinched or sulked, and would come up at the judge's 

 signal for the last heat with the same determination to do or die as 

 at the first, and had she been more judiciously handled, would have 

 won far more victories than stand to her credit. She was six- 

 teen years on the turf, and trotted in one hundred and sixty-one 

 races, winning eighty-eight, and winning for her owner in purses 

 alone $35,000, at a time when large purses were the exception. 



In the decade ending in 1853, the principal horses on the turf 

 were Dutchman, Confidence, Eipton, Lady Suffolk, Americus, 

 Moscow, Long Island Black Hawk, Lady Jane, Duchess, Lady 

 Moscow, Lady Sutton, Lady Brooks, Lady Franklin, Lady Litch- 

 field, Lady Collins, Jack Rossiter, St. Lawrence, Bcppo, Washing- 

 ton, Independence, Pelham, Zachary Taylor, Mac, and Tacony. 

 It is curious to note the aristocratic names of the performers, the 

 term Lady being almost synonymous with mare. 



The following lively sketches from Murray's " Lands of the 

 Slave and the Free" give a fair idea of the condition of the 

 American Trotting Turf as it then appeared to English eyes. If 

 the gallant Captain could revisit our shores now he would find a 

 vast improvement, not only in the time record, but in all the sur- 

 roundings as well. 



Description op a Long Island Trotting-Match. — " The 

 race-course is a two-mile distance, perfectly level, on a smooth and 

 stoneless road, and forming a complete circle. Light trotting- 

 wagons are driving about in the centre, taking it ea^j at sixteen 

 miles an hour ; outside are groups of ' rowdies' making their books, 

 and looking out for greenhorns, an article not so readily found at 

 Long Island as at Epsom. The race is to be ' under the saddle/ 

 and the long list of competitors which had been announced has 

 dwindled down to the old and far-famed Lady Suffolk and the 

 young and unfamed Tacony. A stir among the 'rowdies' is seen, 

 followed by the appearance of Lady Suffolk. I gazed in wonder as 

 I saw her — a small pony-looking animal, moving her legs as though 

 they were in splints, and as if six miles an hour were far beyond 

 her powers. Soon after Tacony came forward, the picture of a 

 good bony post-horse, destitute of any beauty, but looking full of 



