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matches in harness between Ripton and Americns. There was 

 a good deal of betting on time, and the odds ran that the three 

 miles in sulkies would be done nearer to 8.00 than to Y.50. 



The fastest time of three-mile heats, hitherto, was Dutch- 

 man's 7.41, and the next to that Ripton's 7.56^ ; on both which 

 occasions the course was said to be in better order for making 

 great time, than now. 



This match was, however, won by Eipton, beating his for- 

 mer time, in 7.53—8.03. 



On the 22d, the same horses went their second match, in 

 sulkies, "two-mile heats, Eipton winning the first and third 

 heats. In the second, being frightened by a dog, he became 

 uncontrollable, and was adjudged to lose the heat for uninten- 

 tional, foul driving. Time 5.12—5.12—5.17. 



On the 29th, Ripton won the last match of the three-mile 

 heats in harness, in 2.43 — 2.41, the course very heavy ; thus 

 proving himself the better horse at short and long distances. 

 Two or three days before this match, although I omitted it in 

 its proper turn, in order to give the three matches of Ripton 

 and Americns consecutively, Beppo beat Independence, the 

 best three in five, mile heats, in the remarkable time of 2.32^ — 

 2.31^-2.33—2.38—2.35, beating Edwin Forrest's 2.31^—2.33 

 by half a second, his being previously the best on record in 

 harness. 



On the same course, July 4th, Lady Suffolk, Beppo and In- 

 dependence, trotted mile heats, the best tliree in five, with 

 catch weights, in the saddle, the mare carrying 143 lbs., and 

 winning the first, fourth and fifth heats, the second a dead heat 

 between her and Beppo, in 2.28i— 2.28— 2.28— 2.29— 2.32. 



And again, July 12, trotters at catch weights in the saddle, 

 pacers in harness with 145, Lady Sufiblk and Beppo carrying 

 143 and 135 lbs. respectively, went against Oneida Chief with 

 145 lbs. in a sulky, when the gray mare won, making the best 

 time ever recorded until the year 1854, when it was outdone by 

 Tacony, and since byFlora Temple. Time 2.261—2.27—2.27. 



On the 12th, she once more defeated Beppo at mile heats, 

 under the saddle, in 2.301-2.42^—2.28. 



But in her next match on the Beacon Course, August 15, 

 against the pacer Oneida Chief, the odds being heavy on the 



