230 THE TROTTING-nORSE OF AMERICA. 



fifteen hands two inches high. In this trot he was out of 

 condition, and was distanced the first heat in 5m. 37s. 



Ill 1S43, Lady Suffolk, Beppo, and Independence went 

 mile heats, three in five, under saddle, on the Beacon Course. 

 This race was on the 4th of July. It is to be remembered 

 that it was catch- weight, and that she carried 1431bs., which 

 «ras two pounds less than required by the rule. The Lady 

 «^as ridden by Albert Conkling. Beppo was a little chestnut 

 gelding, with a high head, short switch tail, and very gay 

 and gallant style of trotting. He belonged to Mr. James 

 Valentine, and was very fast. As early as 1836, this little 

 horse, in a trial at the Eagle Course, Trenton, two days 

 before he went a race, trotted half a mile in one minute and 

 nine seconds. George Youngs rode him on this trial, and 

 also in the race with Suffolk and Independence. There 

 were five heats of it. The Lady won the first in 2m. 28^s. 

 The second was dead between her and Beppo in 2m. 28s. 

 The third, Independence won in the same time ; and the Lady 

 took the fourth and fifth in 2m. 29s. and 2m. 32s. Inde- 

 pendence was ridden in this race by Lewis Bogers, formerly 

 of the Red House, New York. On the 12th of the saaie 

 month, and at the same course, there was a race between 

 trotters under saddle, catch-weight, and Oneida Chief pacer, 

 in harness. Suffolk carried 1431bs. as before, and Beppo 

 1351bs. It was here that the Lady made the time which 

 stood at the head of the record for ten years (when Tacony 

 beat it) ; and here also it is to be noted that the weight she 

 carried was two pounds under the rule. She won in tliree 

 straight heats in 2m. 26^s., 2m. 27s., and 2m. 27s. It has 

 often been said that in this race she was just off grass ; but 

 this is a mistake. She had gone a race eight days before, as 

 I have shown, and was well enough seasoned for mile heats 

 under saddle when she made the fast time. 



On the 10th of July, she met Beppo again under saddle, 

 and beat him in 2m. 30is., 2m. 42^s., 2m. 28s. On the 

 15th of August, she went tliree mile heats under saddle 



