PERFOK:\rAXCKS OF LEXTXGTOX. SOT 



I have recently seen another likeness by Mr. Trove, which 

 depicts him as a stouter, heavier-bodied, and shorter-legged ani- 

 mal than our picture, but I understand that it was taken when 

 he was fat and out at grass, which every horseman knows has a 

 tendency to let down the belly and make the frame grosser and 

 more fleshy. The points, however, in both, so closely agree, 

 that the one portrait confirms and authenticates the other. 



Up to the date of the remarkable contests of which a descrip- 

 tion immediately ensues, Lexington's performances were as 

 follows. 



PEEFOKMANCES OF LEXINGTOK. 



His first appearance, under his present name,* was in his 

 three-year-old form, on the Metairie Course, l^ew Orleans, on 

 which all his laurels have been won, Dec. 2d, 1853, in a match- 

 race, on the following terras ; — 



Match for |S,500— $5,000 on Sally Waters against $3,500 on Lexington. Three-mile heats, h. a. 

 E. Ten Broeck's b. c. Lexivgton, by Boston, out of xVlice Carneal, by Sarpedon, 3 years. 1 1 

 L. Smith's b. f. Sally Waters, by Imp. Glencoe, out of Maria Black, 4 years. . . 2 dist 

 Time, 6m. 23is.— 6m. 24is. Track heavy. 



Such was the promising commencement of an extraordinary 

 career, which, for its short duration, has been unequalled in the 

 history of the American Turf. 



His second appearance was in three-year-old stakes on the 

 Metaii-ie Course, at New Orleans, January 7, 1854, two-mile 

 heats, four subscribers, when he paid forfeit to Conrad the Cor- 

 sair, Argent, and Hornpipe. 



On the 1st of April of the same year, and on the same course, 

 he started for the great State Post Stakes for all ages — 3 yr. olds, 

 86 pounds ; 4 yr. olds, 100 pounds ; 5 yr. olds, 110 pounds ; 6 

 yr. olds, 118 pounds ; Y yrs. old, and upwards, 124 pounds ; 

 allowing three pounds to mares and geldings. Four-mile heats. 



ENTRIES STARTED FOR THE SWEEPSTAKES. 



For Kentucky, b. c. Lexington, by Boston, out of Alice Carneal, by Imp. Sarpedon, 



3 years old, 11 



For Mississippi, ch. c. Z«<?oOTfe, by Boston, out of Reel, by Imp. Glencoe, 3 yrs. . . 2 2 

 For Alabama, ch. c. Htghlander, by Imp. Glencoe, out of Castanet, by Imp. Monarch, 



4 years old, 3 dist. 



For Louisiana, ch. g. Arrow, by Boston, out of Jeanneton, by Imp. Leviathan, . dist. 



* He had won twice before, in the May of the same year, at Lexington, Ky., 

 mile-heats, and two-mile heats, under the name of Barley. — H. W. H. 



