PEDIGREE OF ARIEL. 197 



In the aggregate^ taking into view speed, bottom, and dura- 

 bility ; amount of running, travel, and of sums " lost and won" 

 on her, we think Ariel stands unrivalled. Her time, from one 

 to four miles and more, is scarce second, at any distance, to any 

 on authentic record. At three years old, she ran a mile on the 

 Union Course, winning several lengths, well in hand, in Im. 48s. ; 

 a few weeks after she won a three-mile heat, running the two last 

 miles in 3m. 47s. ; at eight years old, on the same course, she 

 was beat about two lengths by Arietta, in two miles, run in 

 3m. 44s. ; at five years old, she ran a second heat of three miles, 

 beat about a length, by Sally Walker, in 5m. 42s. ; and at six 

 years old, won readily a second heat of four miles in 7m. 43s. 

 Such stoutness was never exemplified, as in her sixteen-mile race 

 at Newmarket ; where, after winning the second heat of four 

 miles, she closely contested the third., run in Im. 57s., and won 

 the fourth four-mile heat in 8m. 4«. .■' — the best third and fourth 

 heats ever run. Of the ffty-seven races she has run, she has 

 he&n. fo7'ty-two times a winner, having actually won seventeen 

 Jockey Cluh purses, of four-7nile heats, and run in public more 

 than 345 miles. For five years, from the spring she was three, 

 to the autumn of eight years old, she was the ornament and 

 dread of the turf, from IN'ew York to Georgia. She must have 

 travelled at least 3,000 miles — perhaps more. In her matches, 

 and Jockey Club purses, she has " lost and won" about $50,000. 



Ariel's pedigree is worthy of her performances. Her own 

 brothers — Lance, a year older than herself, a distinguished runner 

 that beat the famous Trouble, a great match — O'Kelly, that beat 

 Flying Dutchman, Mary Randolph, and others, with such eclat 

 as to bring $5,000 — and St. Leger in the great sweepstake in 

 Baltimore, where he was so unaccountably beaten, but has since 

 beat Terror — ^her own sister Angeline, and half brother Splendid, 

 by Duroc, that was beat at three years old, in a produce match, 

 by Col. Johnson's Medley — are all well known to fame. Her 

 grandam gray mare Empress, has also been regarded one of the 

 most renowned race nags and brood mares of the North. Octo- 

 ber, 1804, at four years old, she very unexpectedly beat the 



