The American Trotting Horse. 



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LADY SUFFOLK. 



The United States has, undoubtedly, produced more 

 superior trotters than any other country in the world, 

 and in no other country has the speed of the best Am- 

 erican trotters been equalled. The New York 'Spirit 

 of the Times' — the best authority in our country on 

 this and all kindred topics — thus compares the English 

 and American trotters : ; There is no comparison what- 

 ever between the trotting-horses of the two countries. 

 Mr. Wheelan, who took Rattler to England last sea- 

 son, and doubly distanced with ease every horse that 

 ventured to start against him, as the record shows, in- 

 forms us that there are twenty or more roadsters in 

 common use in this city, that could compete success- 

 folly with the fastest trotters on the English tur£ They 



