182 THT5 HORSE. 



The same may be said of the spring meetings on the Beacon, 

 Centreville and Cambridge Courses, on none of wliich was any- 

 time made worth}'^ of record. 



On the 20th of May, over the Beacon, Lady Suffolk beat 

 Americus, Rip ton, Washington and Pizarro, two miles, in 

 harness ; Americus, the favorite, in 5.17 — 5.19 — 5.18 ; and on 

 the 23d, Washington beat Duchess and Rifle, the second the 

 favorite, at 10 to 7, in 5.17—5.20. 



On the 6th of June Lady Suffolk beat Columbus, three miles, 

 in harness, at Centreville, in 7.51 — 8.02. 



About the same time there was a pacing match on the 

 Metairie Course at New Orleans, most remarkable from the 

 fact, that Tippecanoe, who came off victor, though losing the 

 first heat, over Grey Eagle, in 2.53 — 2.36—2.40, carried 60 lbs. 

 over his weight. 



On the Beacon Course, June 15, was a remarkable trot, 

 Ripton against Confidence, the former in a wagon, the latter in 

 harness, the best three in five. Ripton, beside the odds he gave 

 in the match, was so lame, that his driver would have paid for- 

 feit, but being refused, decided to go in, wdien he won without 

 distress, in 2.40—2.41—2.38—2.42^—2.40, Confidence winning 

 the first two heats. 



The same course, Cayuga Chief, in a wagon weighing 220 lbs., 

 beat Washington and distanced Americus, by a bad break in his 

 first heat, in 2.36^—2.53^—2.40-2.42—2.45. 

 ' Cayuga Chief made his first half mile, though he lost the 

 first heat, in 1.15, no such time ever having been made before 

 in public. 



A few days afterward Americus beat Lady Suffolk and dis- 

 tanced Columbus over the Beacon, in 7.53^ — 8.01. 



At Albany, on the 4th of July, General Dunham's Moscow 

 made his first appearance in the United States, having been 

 previously a winner of some note in Canada, and believed by 

 her Majesty's subjects to be able to beat any Yankee horse or 

 mare, handily. He did nothing creditable in this, his first year, 

 but subsequently trotted worthily of his original renown, and 

 holds a high place in the annals of American trotting. 



His name " Moscow," is a vulgar and barbarous mis-pro- 

 nunciation of his original name, Passe-carreau^ or Pass-dior- 



