214 THK HORSE. 



Ariel was still the favorite ; and led gallantly in the second 

 heat, as before — but near its close was passed by both her 

 competitors, Kate Kearney again winning in fine style ; the 

 others near at hand. A capital race. The second heat — only 

 two seconds more than the first — 8m. Is. — the two heats two 

 seconds quicker than Monsieur Tonson's fine race at Tree Hill 

 — and excellent time, for the course. 



Kate Kearney — since so celebrated — the preceding week, 

 at Newmarket, had won a great sweepstakes, in good time, 

 beating Slender and another; and two days before her race 

 with Ariel, had won another, two-mile heats, in the best time 

 at Tree Hill, 3m, 57s. and 3m. 50s. — the second heat — beating 

 Slender, Waxy and another. Slender, the next day after her 

 sweepstakes, won the Proprietor's purse, two-mile heats, beat- 

 ing Lafayette, Caswell, Susan Robinson, Sally Drake and an- 

 other, in 3m. 56s., and 3m. 52s. Star, a few weeks before, at 

 Norfolk, had run a severe second heat of two miles, with Polly 

 Hopkins, in 3m. 4:2s. — the best time over that course, twenty- 

 nine yards short of a mile. 



48. At Belfield, the week after her Tree Hill race, Ariel 

 won the Proprietor's purse, $200, two-mile heats ; Polly Hop- 

 kins, three years old, won the Jockey Club purse, $400, three- 

 mile lieats, the preceding day, and the next week at New Hope, 

 the Proprietor's purse, $250. 



49. November. At New Hope, Halifax county, N. C, 

 Ariel closed her career in the " race-horse region," by winning 

 Ihc Jockey Club purse, $400, three-mile heats. 



March, 1829, she was purchased of David Branch, Esq., 

 and passed into the hands of Hamilton Wilkes, Esq., who 

 travelled her the entire distance to New York by land, about 

 400 miles, and renewed her exploits in the land of her birth — 

 leaving the late scenes of her glory to her successors in fame — 

 Kate Kearney, Polly Hopkins, Slender and Star. Of the 

 twelve races she ran as a six-year-old, Ariel won ten; and waS' 

 obviously out of condition in the two she lost, won by Medley 

 and Kate Kearney. 



50. May 12. At the Union Course, Long Island, N. Y., 

 the first spring meeting, Ariel, now seven years old, was beat 

 by the famed gr. m. Betsey Eansom, five years old, by Yir- 



