LADY SUFFOLK. ^QJ 



minntes, unduly protracted, where one lias been even slightly 

 injured at top speed ! Let it be known, lastly, that probably 

 more noble animals have been irremediably ruined and destroyed 

 by hauling at dead weights, on a foot's pace, beyond their abil- 

 ity to move, than in all the time matches that have ever been 

 run, be they long or short, fast or slow ! 



Having discharged my mind, however, I proceed to the 

 record. The year 1838 is celebrated for several events worthy 

 of long remembrance on the trotting turf. 



First, for the astonishing feats and challenges of Dutchman 

 and Daniel D. Tompkins ; and, second, for the appearance of 

 Lady Suffolk on the turf, of which she was for so many years 

 to be the brightest ornament. 



The gray mare was not very successful at first, and it seems 

 to have been the general opinion that she was ill-trained and 

 badly handled by her owner, D. Bryan. 



She was beaten by Black Hawk — not the Stallion — and 

 Apollo, in indifferent time ; then won a trot of two-mile heats, 

 under the saddle, for animals never winners of $100, beating 

 Lady Victory, Black Hawk, Cato, and Sarah Faff, in two heats, 

 5.15—5.17. 



On the Hunting Park Course in May, Daniel D. Tompkins 

 beat Edwin Forrest four-mile heats. First heat, 8.07 ; second 

 heat, Forrest distanced — first two miles done in 5.30. 



This was a match for $10,000 ; and after winning it, Tomp- 

 kins challenged any horse in the world to trot him three-mile 

 heats, over the Hunting Park Course, at Philadelphia, for the 

 sum of $1,000, without immediately finding a taker. 



On the sixth day of October following, however, on the Bea- 

 con Course, Xew Jersey, Dutchman met Rattler three-mile heats, 

 for $1,000, and the time was such as speedily to turn the tables ; 

 four lieats were made, and the time was less remarkable, even, 

 than the stoutness evinced by both competitors. 



The match was under the saddle, weight, as ordered by the 

 rules this year established at Centreville Course, 115 poimds 

 each, and the result as follows. 



Dutchman, . . . .2101 



Rattler, . . . . . 12 2 



Time, 7.&4i— T.oO-S.O.'— 8.'24i. 



