|ADY SUFFOLK was bred in Suffolk County, 

 Long Island, in 1833. Her pedigree, as given 

 in Wallace's Trotting Register, is as follows : 

 " She was got by Engineer 2d, a thoroughbred 

 son of Engineer by imported Messenger, and 

 her dam was by Don Quixote, a son of imported Messenger. 

 So she was strongly inbred to the grand gray horse whose 

 importation has proved so groat a boon to this country. 

 She was bred by Mr. Leonard W. Lawrence, of Suiithtown, 

 L. I., and was sold t weaning time to Mr. Charles Little 

 for $60, from whom Mr Richard F. Blaydenburgh bought 

 her, and sold her at four years old for $112.50, to David 

 Bryant. Hiram Woodruff, in his Trotting-Horse of America, 

 tli us describes her: 



li When young. Lady Suffolk was an iron-gray, rather dark 

 than light ; but in her old age she became almost white. 

 She was, in my judgment, but little, if any. above fifteen 

 hands and an inch high. It has been stated in print, and 

 I have often heard it said, that she was fifteen two ; but I 

 never called her more than fifteen one, or fifteen one and a 

 half at the outside. She was well made, long in the body; 

 back a little reached; powerful long quarters; hocks let 

 down low; short cannon bones, and long fetlocks. For 

 many years her ankles were straight, pastern-joints fine; 

 but, prior to the close of her long and very extraordinary 

 career, she was a little knuckled. She had good shoulders, 

 a light and slim but yet muscular neck, a large, long, bony 

 head, and big ears. To look at her, the worst point about 

 her was her feet. They were small and crimpy, what is 

 caller) mulish ; but they were sound and tough in texture. 

 In trotting, she went with her head low. and nose thrust 

 out. Her neck was very straight. I have seen it stated 

 that it was finely arched, but it is all a mistake: if there 

 was any deviation from the straight, it inclined more to the 

 ewe-neck than to an arch." 



Her first public appearance was on a very cold day in 

 February, 1838, at Babylon, N. Y., where ^he trotted for 

 a purse of eleven ifollars, and won it after three heats, 

 (he fastest of which was in three minutes. In her next 

 race, June 20, at the Beacon Course, she was beaten by 

 Black Hawk and Apollo in poor time ; and two days after- 

 wards, at the same place, she won a trot of two-mile heats, 

 under the saddle, beating Lady Victory, Black Hawk, Cato, 

 and Sarah Puff, in two heats, in 5:15 5:17. She was 

 then beaten by Rattler, Awful, and Napoleon, all of them 

 races of two-mile heats ; and October 17, she beat Polly 

 Smallfry and Madame Royal, two-mile heats, in 5:18 5:26. 

 Rattler then beat her three-mile heats, and the famous 

 Dutchman beat two races, two-mile and mile heats respect- 

 ively. In 1839 she trotted twelve races, eight of which 

 were two-mile heats, and one of four-mile heats, winning 

 six and losing six. She commenced in 1840 by trotting 

 two-mile heats, under the saddle, at the Hunting Park 

 Course, June 6, against Dutchman, and was beaten. Two 

 days afterwards the same horse beat her. three-mile heats, 

 over the same course. In less than a week after these 

 two severe races, she beat, at the Centreville Course, L. I., 

 Celeste and N:ipoleon, two-mile heats, in harness, in 5:26 

 5:33 5:32. June 30, she beat Bonaparte easily at the 

 Centreville, four-mile heats, in 11:15 11:58. She then 

 lay by until September 21, when she beat Aaron Burr, 

 two-mile heats, at the Beacon Course, in 5:22 ft:21 5:35; 

 and three days later she added to her growing fame by beat- 



ing Dutchman, two-mile heats, under saddle, at the Beacon 

 Course, in 4:59 5:03}. Owing to an accident, she did no 

 more work that year. She opened the season of 1841 by 

 beating Confidence and Washington, two-mile heats, at the 

 Centreville Course, May 4, in 5:13} 5:41. She was then 

 beaten by Confidence, mile heats, and at Philadelphia, May 

 6, beat Dutchman, two-mile heats, in harness, in 5:12} 

 5:19} 5:21, and two days afterwards beat him, three-mile 

 heats, under saddle, in 7:40} 7:56. On June 13, at the 

 Beacon Course, she was beaten by Aaron Burr, three-mile 

 heats. On July 5, at the Beacon, she beat Ripton, under 

 saddle, mile heats, in 2:35 2:37}, and on the 22d of the 

 same month, at the same course, she beat Awful, two-milo 

 heats, in harness, in three heats, in 5:26} 5:28 5:24. 

 Five days after, at the same course, she distanced Oneida 

 Chief, the pacer, two-mile heats, under saddle, in 5:05, 

 with very great ease. She was beaten by Americus, five- 

 mile heats, to wagon. The next two years she was gene- 

 rally unsuccessful, which was attributed universally to the 

 obstinacy and incompetency of bar owner and driver, David 

 Bryant. Had Hiram Woodruff handled her, her defe-its 

 throughout her whole career would have been few and far 

 between. 



In 1844 she was very successful. May 15, at the Cen- 

 treville Course, she beat Duchess, Ripton and Washington, 

 in straight heats, in 5:20 5:24 ; and less than a week 

 afterward, at the Beacon, she defeated Americus, Ripton 

 and two others, in 5:17 5:19 5:18. At the Centreville, 

 June 6, she be;it Columbus, three-mile heats, in 7:51 

 8:02 ; then back to the Beacon, where Americus beat her 

 and Columbus, three-mile heats, in 7:53J 8:01. The Lady 

 then won four races, all mile heats, without losing once, 

 and in 1845, she won four races, three from Amerieus and 

 one from Moscow, and lost four times : twice to Americus, 

 once to Duchess, and once to Moscow. In 1846 she only 

 won two out of her five races. In 18 17, when she was in 

 her fourteenth year, she bore away the palm from all her 

 competitors, winning nine times, and against such horses as 

 Moscow, Lndy Sutton, Ripton, and the paci'rs James K. 

 Polk and Roanoke, and lost but once. These performances 

 were at three, two, and one-mile heats, under saddle, in 

 harness, and to sulkies, doing three miles in 7:56 8:06}, 

 two miles in 5:03 5:10 5:12, one mile in 2:33}. In 

 1848 she only trotted six races, having met with an acci- 

 dent in the middle of the season, when she was winning 

 races hoof over hoof, but in 1849, she came out fresh and 

 fine after her accident, and trotted nineteen races, and came 

 out conqueror in twelve of them ; beating Gray Eagle, Mac, 

 and Lady Sutton each twice; Pelham, five times; Trustee, 

 the famous twenty-uiiler, four times; Black Hawk, Gray 

 Trouble, Ploughboy and others. In her race with Mac 

 and Gray Trouble, at Boston, June 14, to saddle, she won 

 the second heat in 2:26, which for a short time was at the 

 head of the record. In 1850 she bent Lady Moscow six 

 times, at one, two, and three miles; Jack RossitxT, thrice; 

 Hector once, and in harness once her old adversary, James 

 K. Polk, to wagon. She was beaten four times by Lady 

 Moscow, at two and three miles; and twice at two miles by 

 Jack Rossiter, coming off victorious from both in each match 

 of three events. In 1851 she was only moderately success- 

 ful. 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, Vt.,on March 7th, 1853. 



