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heals at Norfolk, beating horses of high reputation, and winning 

 the second lieat in Tm. 43s, ; the next a race of three-mile heats, 

 at Broad Rock, where at four heats, the last in 5m. 47s., she 

 beat the " crack nags " of Virginia ; and the third, another race 

 of four-mile heats, severely contested, again won in four heats, 

 and in extraordinary time. On the eighth day thereafter she 

 was beaten, the four-mile heats, by a very superior three-year- 

 old ; an excellent race ; yet, in the two consecutive weeks, im- 

 mediately succeeding, she won two more races. 



Tlie English "patriarchs" Childers, Eclipse, and Highflyer, 

 probably had more sj^eed ; and our Timoleon,* Gallatin, Sally 

 Walker, and Henry, have run one, two, three, and four miles, 

 something quicker than Ariel, but neither of them exhibited the 

 same degree of bottom and durability ; few were put to the 

 same test, nor do we believe as much money has been staked 

 on either. Others, in England, equally or more distinguished 

 in some respects, were not as much so in others. 



If it were her fate sometimes to encounter a superior, she 

 was never beaten by that one in a second camioa'iyn ; when 

 Monsieur Tonson and Sally Walker were her victors, during the 

 short period of their glorious triumphs, she may not have been 

 in equal condition. Recovering readily from the effects of a 

 hard race, she started every season, at every meeting within her 

 reach, wearing down all opponents ; she was never known to be 

 lame, even to the close of her long and brilliant career. 



When beat by Flirtilla in their great match, so admirably 

 described by "An Old Turfman," she yielded to a noble foe, 

 who had borne off every laurel that season, and, the next, con- 

 tinued her triumphs, until she broke down with the wreath of 

 victoryf almost within her grasp. " It was considered marvel- 

 lous, that a three-year-old should make such a contest witJi such 

 an adversary ;" especially as she must have been " huri-ied in 

 her work," to have changed her condition in the brief interval 

 from her other match. 



* One, two, three and four miles have been run by them in Im. 478., 3m. 43s., 

 5m. 42s., and "Zm. 38s. 



\ Flirtilla, in the Jockey Club race, four-mile heats, at Xewmarket, having won 

 the first heat, severely contested by Shakspcare, broke down in the second ; and 

 the race was won by Gohanna, who had merely saved his distance the first heat. 



