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ihoiiglit au amazing tiling. It does not appear upon the 

 record, as a matter of course ; but the time was taken and 

 immediately announced by so many careful and accurate 

 gentlemen that there is no doubt about the fact ; and it ia 

 proper that it should be mentioned here. 



Two more races in 1841 have to be noticed. They both 

 took place in Philadelphia, over the Hunting-park Course. 

 The first of them was two-mile heats under saddle, for a 

 puise of two hundred dollars, against the bay horse Quaker. 

 The latter was a great bay gelding, seventeen hands high. 

 Hammil rode him, and William Woodruff rode E-ipton. 

 The little horse defeated the big one in two straight heats. 

 Late in December of that year, and when there was at 

 least three inches of snow on the track, Ripton trotted two- 

 mile heats in harness, against Spangle. George Youngs 

 drove the latter ; and I drove E-ipton, who won in two heats. 

 I do not remember the time ; but I know it was slow, which 

 was to be expected in that weather and on such a course. 



We are now in a position to resume our account of the 

 doings in which the little horse was a chief actor in 1842; 

 after the 5m. 07s. time in harness, which concluded the last 

 chapter. The next succeeding race that year was in the 

 latter part of June, over the Eagle Course, Trenton, New 

 Jersey. It was two-mile heats in harness, Lady Sufiblk 

 and Washington being in with Ripton. In the first heat 

 nothing particularly deserving mention occurred. I won 

 it handily with the little horse in 5m. 16s., Lady Suffolk 

 (Second. The odds had been large on Kipton after the first 

 heat; and most of those who had taken them were very 

 yocifcTOus, and in ecstacies of delight ; but this did not 

 last long. 



In the first mile of the second heat liipton acted badly. The 

 mare was a long w ay ahead at the end of it ; and, as Bryant 

 passed the stand, he sung out at the top of his voice, " Can I 

 distance him ? " There was such a shout of " Yes ! go on ! " 

 in reply, that it seemed as if the whole multitude had '<m- 



