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15. . Oct 13 — Union Course, L. I Purse 4 mile heats . . . 



16. 1833. May 28— Union Course, L. I Purse 3 milo heats. .. 



17. . June 7 — Dutchess County Course, N. T. Purse 3 mile heats . . . 



18. . Oct. 5— Union Course. L. I Purse 4 mile heiits . . . 



19. . Oct 31— Union Course, L. I Purse 4 mile heats. . . 



20. 1834 May 9— Union Course, L. I Purse 4 mile heats . . . 



21. . June 5 — Union Course, L. I Purse 8 mile heats. . . 



22. . Oct 5— Union Course, L. I Purse 4 mile heats. - - 



23. . Oct 31 — Union Course, L. I Purse 4 milo heats. . . 



24. . Nov. 13— Eagle Course, N. J Purse 3 mile heats - . 



25. 1835. May 8— Union Course, L. I Purse 4 mile heats- - . 



Starting twenty-five times, and winning in thirteen races, — eleven of them Jockey Club 



Paces, at three and four-mile heats, — the handsome sum of $14,900 



Seventeen four-mile races, and forty-two heats of four miles — making 168 miles. 



The above recapitulation of her performances fully justifies, 

 we think, the high opinion we have expressed in the course of 

 our article, of Black Maria's surpassing speed, and wonderful 

 powers of endurance. In summing up the large amount she 

 won, and comparing it with the winnings of first-raters of a 

 more recent date, it should be recollected, that while she was on 

 the Turf, the Club Purses were but of about half the value of 

 those given at the present day. Trifle, a nonpareil, and the 

 most successful racer of her day, won but $14,380 ; Post Boy, a 

 " crack " of later date, for a time at the head of the Northern 

 Turf, and a very capital performer, won only $12,700, while 

 Mingo, the phenomenon, who ran well at all distances, and won 

 for himself the proud title of the " Champion of the North," 

 won but $15,250 ; Mingo's winnings, however, were mostly in 

 purses. By setting down the purses won by Black Maria at the 

 respective suras now ofiered for three and four-mile heats, she 

 would have left the Turf a winner of Eighteen Thousand Five 

 Hundred Dollar's ! 



Black Maria, like Post Boy, was " hammered to death '' in 

 training, and came to the post quite as often amiss as in condi- 

 tion. When " fit," she was too fleet for the fast, and too stout 

 for the strong ; another reason for her frequent defeats, was owing 

 to the management of her high-spirited owner, of whom it is no- 

 torious that he never pays forfeit — never allows a walk over, 

 if a horse in his stable can stand on three legs, and is the 

 man always called upon to make up a fleld or a stake, and 

 always certain to do it without consulting his interest or his 

 trainer. In the hands of a gentleman less regardless of the 

 gratification of the public, and more alive to his own interests, 



