DEBUT OF EIPTON. 



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the Centreville Course, in wagons, the drivers to weigh 145 lbs. 

 won bj the former in two straight heats. 



The aggregate of the time given is respectively, first heat, 

 13.54 ; second, 13.58^. 



The whole ten miles done, without distress, in the amazing- 



This year is remarkable for the sustained performances of 

 Lady Suifolk and Dutchman, the improvement of the extraordi- 

 nary young horse Americus, and the amazing promise of the 

 new entries, Ripton, who long afterward proved himself nothing 

 but a good one, and Brooklyn Maid, worthy the noble stock of 

 Abdallah. 



1842. The first event of this year was the occurrence of one 

 of those acts of savage barbarity, which have brought such dis- 

 grace on the trotting turf, and contributed too justly to render it 

 a scandal in the sight of all moral and kind-hearted men. Tliis 

 was the driving to death of a mare called Empress, on the 

 Bascombe Course at Mobile, in an attempt to do thirty miles in 

 two hours, which the unfortunate animal had not so much as a 

 chance to accomplish. She gave out hopelessly beaten at the 

 twenty-first mile, and was dead of pure exhaustion in less than 

 two hours. 



In this season a number of Abdallali colts came out with 

 more or less success, and there were several matches and purses 

 given for competition by that horse's stock alone. Among these 

 were Hector, Ajax, Fourth of July, and Brandy wine, all of 

 which did good work ; the last-named more especially. 



Over the Beacon Course, May 6th, Ellen Thompson made a 

 four-mile race, beating Tom Jefferson ; the mare under saddle, 

 the horse in harness, in 11.55—11.33 ; good time, and beaten by 

 Lady Suffolk aud Dutchman only. 



Tlie following day, Ripton beat Confidence and Lady Suffolk, 

 two straight heats of two miles, in 5.10^—6.121 ; and three days 

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