218 THE HOESE. 



53. October. At Ponglikeepsie, Ariel won with ease the 

 Jockey Chib purse, $500, four-mile heats, beating Light In- 

 fantry. 



54. At the Union Course, the next week, she won the 

 Jockey Club purse, $500, four-mile heats, beating her only 

 competitor Lady Flirt, with such ease the first heat, that slie 

 was drawn. Lady Flirt had won the three-mile heats, with 

 eclat, at Poughkeepsie, where she subsequently beat Black 

 Maria and others, thj-ee-mile heats. 



55. 1830. May 8. Ariel, now eight years old, had been 

 matched by the gentlemen of the ]S"ortli, to run on the Union 

 Course, against Col. Johnson's Arietta, four years old, by Yir- 

 ginian, backed by him and others of tlie South — Artel to carry 

 100 lbs. against 87 lbs. two miles, for $5000 aside — and was 

 beat by Arietta, rather more than a length — a good race — sixty 

 yards more would j)robably have given it to Ariel. The first 

 mile was run in Im. 4:7s. — the two in 3m. 44s. See " Old Turf- 

 man," p. 45, vol. 3, American Turf Eegister. 



56. May 12. Ariel was beat the three-mile heats, by Sir 

 Lovel, six years old, by Duroc, a good race, in which she was 

 second — beating Bachelor and Yankee Maid. Time, 5m. 47s. — 

 6m. 53s. 



57. May 18. In less than a week, Ariel again entered the 

 lists with Sir Lovel, at Poughkeepsie, destined to replace tlie 

 laurels she loses on the Union Course. This was in other re- 

 spects a second edition of her race with Betsey Eansom on the 

 same course. Sir Lovell the favorite, at one hundred to thirty, 

 led off in gallant style, and took the first heat in 7m. 54s. 

 There was now scarce a doubt as to the result. In the second 

 heat, he took the lead as before — Ariel pressing him more close- 

 ly on every mile, the first run in Im. 57s. — the second in Ira. 

 59s. — the tliird in Im. 54s. — the three miles in 5m. 50s. — in a 

 half mile more, Ariel is ahead as in the former race — but Sir 

 Lovell gives up. and Ariel wins it, at her ease, in 8m. Sir Lov- 

 ell being then drawn, Ariel again took the purse. 



This was Ariel's last race, and with the fame that Sir Lov- 

 ell subsequently acquired, was of itself suflicient to establish . 

 her fame. Two days thereafter, he won the two-mile heats, 

 beating Maryland Ech'pse and Lady Hunter, in 3m. 50s. and 



