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week — of wliich she won eleven and lost but four — three to the 

 famous Monsieur Tonson, and one to Shakspeare, whom she af- 

 terward beat. 



22. May. At Kewmarket, Ariel, now five years old, won 

 the Jockey Club purse, $600, four-mile heats, beating with ease, 

 Maid of Lodi, Atalanta and Phillis. Time, 7m. 58s. — 8m. 8s. 



After this race, $2000 was given by Mr. Wyche for six 

 weeks' use of Ariel. 



23. At Tree Hill, the next week, she won the Jockey Club 

 purse, $1000, with a post stake $500, each four subscribers, mak- 

 ing the sum of $3000, four-mile heats, beating with ease Mr. 

 Botts's Gohanna, the famed Sally McGee, and Maid of Lodi. 

 — Monsieur Tonson, calculated upon in the race, had broken 

 down, and Sally Walker had gone to the Union Course, where, 

 in three four-mile heats, she beat Lance — own brother to Ariel — 

 and Janet, own sister to Sir Charles. Track excessively heavy — 

 at places near knee-deep with mud and water. 



24. At Broad Rock, the week following, she won the Jockey 

 Club purse, $500, beating Lafayette and others. 



25. At Norfolk, the next week, she won the Jockey Club 

 purse, $500, four-mile heats, beating Gohanna and the cele- 

 brated Sally Hope, four years old, by Sir Archy — track also 

 very deep. The defeat of the latter has been ascribed to the 

 state of the course. See her memoir, American Turf Register. 



26. June. At Nottoway, shortly thereafter, she won the 

 Jockey Club purse, $400, three-mile heats, beating Gohanna, 

 Sally McGee, Red Gauntlet and others. A capital race. Go- 

 hanna ran in reserve the first heat, won in 5m. 50s., and closely 

 contested the next, an uncommonly severe heat, won in 5m. 46s. 



Thus Ariel, in one campaign, won all her five Jockey Club 

 races, three of them four-mile heats ; beating most of the best 

 horses — without taking into consideration the three races, won 

 a few months before in Georgia and South Carolina. Having 

 previously passed through several hands, the veteran Wynn be- 

 ing dead, Ariel was now bought for $1600, by his nephew. Col. 

 "Wm. "Wynn. 



2Y. September. At Broad Rock, for the Jockey Club purse, 

 $500, three-mile heats, Ariel was beaten, in a severely con- 

 tested race, by Sally Walker, five years old, by Timoleon ; but 

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