234 Tin-: horse. 



The following spirited account of this race is from the same 

 correspondent. 



" Two to one on Maria against the field and few takers. 

 She was known to have fed but little, and to be somewhat stiff 

 and sore from her race of Wednesday, still it was thought there 

 was enough left in her to beat Collier, Mayday, and an untried 

 3-year-old of 14 hands high. The start w^as a good one. Col- 

 lier and Mayday had the track for the first two miles and a half, 

 closely followed by Maria and Trifle ; Maria then came in front 

 and kept the lead to the turn in the last half mile, when, to the 

 astonishment of every body. Trifle made a brush and went by 

 her two or three lengths. Ealph was all abroad, and did not 

 know whether he was on his head or his heels. Whalebone 

 and catgut could only bring the mare to a lap at the ending 

 post. Trifle won the heat in 8.00. Collier and Mayday laid 

 np. This heat, though it varied the betting on the black mare, 

 did not discourage the friends of Collier, who backed him to 

 win against either the mare or Trifle. Maria came to the post 

 for the second heat perfectly cooled out, and looking still like 

 a winner ; but she was observed to be a little lame, and to feel 

 in her feet the effects of her former race. Collier and Mayday 

 were but little distressed, and Trifle came from the hands of Col. 

 Selden's trainer in perfect condition. The four stripped again 

 at the usual interval — which at the South is forty-five minutes. 

 Collier and Mayday made the running for the first two miles, 

 when Maria's steady stride brought her alongside, and in the 

 next half mile ahead of both. The black mare kept the track, 

 dropping Collier and Mayday fast, and followed at a short dis- 

 tance by Trifle, who had also headed the other two. Li round- 

 ing the turn in the last half mile, Trifle again challenged, and 

 again went by the mare, in the same place and in the same 

 style as in the former heat, evincing no signs of tire, and win- 

 ning by a length in 7.55. She kept up her stride, and showed 

 an endurance that astonished those who witnessed this extra- 

 ordinar}' performance. In this heat Black Maria ran her 

 twentieth mile of that week in 1.53." 



Trifle came out in the spring of this year, and ran on to the 

 end of the campaign of 1834, during which she started twenty- 

 four times and won eighteen races — sixteen of them pm'ses, at 



