XXII. 



Ripton and Lady Sutton. — Lady Sutton and Lady Moscow. — Death of 

 Lady Moscow. — Her Burial-place. — Her Produce. — Horses she trotted 

 against. — Eipton and Lady Suffolk. — Ripton, Sorrel Ned, and Snake. 

 — Ripton and Jersey. — Ripton's Last Race. 



AFTER I sent Ripton back from Boston with this second- 

 ary lameness in the hind-leg, it was a good while 

 before he was fit to trot again. A long rest, however, did 

 a great deal for him ; and in 1847 we deemed him well 

 enough to trot a race of two-mile heats in harness, on the 

 Centre ville Course, for $1,000 a side, against Lady Sutton. 

 The Lady was a little brown mare, about fourteen hands 

 and three inches high, stoutly made, and with much speed 

 and good bottom. She is the only one of Ripton's old 

 opponents that is yet alive ; and she may be seen here any 

 day, as gay as a lark for an old one, as I shall presently 

 show. In the race which took place in November, James 

 Whelpley drove the mare, and I drove Ripton. The Lady 

 took the first heat after a stout struggle, and then they laid 

 two to one on her. But I was satisfied that little white 

 legs had yet plenty of trot in him, and resolved to do my 

 utmost to get it out. The second heat was desperately con- 

 tested. For the last half mile the horses were neck-and- 

 neck, doing all they knew under the wliip. It was a very 

 close thing, and a dozen strides from home seemed to be 

 anybody's lieat; but the old horse lasted the longest, and, 

 lifting him with the bit in the last stride or two, I landed 

 him before her by three feet. 



Tliere was very little to choose between them now, and 



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