TROTTING AT MOBIL K. 163 



Lazarus, Eieiizi and Maria Monk, two miles, 5.45, 5.46, 5.46. 



Modesty and Beppo, saddle, " " 5.42, 5.39. 



Eolla, Maria Monk and Job Fox, saddle, 



two miles, 5.37, 5.38. 



Shortly afterward Dutchman, on his first appearance, made, 

 under the saddle, a mile in ... . 2.33 

 in harness, 2.35 



Awful, under saddle, did two miles in . 5.28 5.21? 



Don Juan, " " " " . 5.17 5.14 



Henry, in harness, " " " . . 5.20 5.28 



Dutchman also made four miles, under the saddle, in the ex- 

 traordinary time of 11m. 19s., 10m. 51s., which time, to this day, 

 never has been beaten, no other heat — much less second heat — 

 having been done within the eleven minutes. 



Don Juan's two-mile time this year is five seconds the best 

 yet on record, and Awfid's, though 2^ seconds w^orse than Mod- 

 esty's, of last year, was great for a green horse. 



The year 1837 opened by a very remarkable and game match, 

 Dolly, by Messenger, out of a thoroughbred mare — therefore, if 

 the last be correct, herself thoroughbred — being backed to go 

 five miles in 17m. 30s., with two persons weighing 300 pounds, 

 in a wagon. 



This feat the gallant little mare performed with ease in 

 16m, 45s., the driver and his comrade being ten pounds over 

 weight, or 310 pounds ; when, some remarks being made dero- 

 gatory to her endurance, a second match was made that she 

 would start on the instant, and do ten miles farther at the same 

 rate, viz. in 35 minutes, which she also won handily in 34m. 07a. 



The year 1837 is farther remarkable for the opening of a 

 trotting course at Mobile, Alabama, the first, it is believed, 

 within the Southern States, where galloping horses have always 

 been, and are to this day, preferred to trotters. The horses were 

 importations from New York, Kolla, Onondaga chief, and others. 

 The time made was of no account, but the fact is worthy of 

 remembrance, as connected with the increase and popularity of 

 the sport. 



Awful, this season, beat the famous old horse Screwdriver, 

 said to be fourteen years of age, in 8.23— 8.16i, three-mile heats, 

 but shortly afterward, the greatest time as yet recorded was made 



