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against a strong field, and won, while Trifle was crippled and 

 laid np until the September season of the ensuing year. Lady 

 Belief, as game a filly as ever started, and true as steel to the 

 last, died within a few weeks, from the effects of a cold 

 and exhaustion. Who that was present that day, and marked 

 the meek expressive glance cast up towards the judges by one 

 of these doomed ones— Black Maria — when brought up to 

 struggle through a fifth heat, will ever forget it ? 



1833. Same Course, Tuesday, May 28— Jockey Club Purse, $400, conditions as before. Three- 

 mile heats. 



John C. Stevens' bl. m. Black Maria, by Eclipse, out of Lady Lightfoot, 7 yrs. . ,15 1 



John M. Botts' b. c. EoUa, by Gohanna, out of Dairy Maid, 4 yrs 4 14 



John C. Craig's b. m. Virginia Taylor, by Sir Archy, out of Coquette, 6 yrs. . . .542 

 Jos. H. Van Mater's b. h. Jackson, by John Eichards, out of Honesty, 6 yrs. . . 2 2 8 



Thos. Pearsall's gr. f. Alice Gray, by Henry, out of Sport's-mistress, 4 yrs. . . .38 dist 

 Time, 6.02— 6.07— 5.4S. 



A tip-top race, every inch being well contested ; Black 

 Maria's 5.48 in a third heat of three miles has not been equalled 

 before or since, to our knowledge ; her time is the more remark- 

 able, when the fact is considered that it was the old mare's first 

 appearance after her race of twenty miles the previous October. 

 Alice Gray, a filly of very fine speed, though unfortunate in 

 this race, subsequently placed herself near the head of the 

 I^orthern Turf. She is now a magnificent brood mare, in the 

 possession of Walter Livingston, Esq., who has bred several 

 very blood-like looking colts from her that promise to " follow 

 in the footsteps " of their dam, when brought to the post. KoUa 

 has since been sold by Mr. Botts, if we mistake not, and has 

 been standing in Yirginia for two or three years. 



1838. Dutchess County Course, Poughkeepsie, N. T., Friday, June 7- Jockey Club Purse, $300, 



conditions as before. Throe-mile heats. 

 John C. Stevens' bl. m. Black Maria, by Eclipse, out of Lady Lightfoot, 7 yrs. . . .11 

 Alfred Sherman's ch. h. De Witt Clinton, by Rattler, out of Matilda, 5 yrs. ... 2 2 



E. Jackson's b. h. Henry Archy, by Henry, dam by Eclipse, 5 yrs 3 dr 



Time, 5.42—6.04. 



The time of the first heat of this race would probably have 

 been several seconds less, had the field been able to drive 

 Maria ; as it stands, it is one of the very best in the annals of 

 the American Turf. After her race in May on the Island, 

 • Maria was ordered by Mr. Stevens to be thrown out of training, 

 but Bill Patrick had her out after dark or before daylight, every 

 time opportunity afforded without danger of detection, and 



