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Lady Moscow was thrice a winner, and not beaten, defeating 

 Gipsey and Grey Harry ; Philadelphia Sal, and Gipsey ; Lady 

 Sutton, Sal, and Grey Harry, all at one-mile heats, her best time 

 2.37—2.32—2.33, against Lady Sutton. 



Lady Sutton also won thrice, at two-mile heats, against Sal 

 and Grey Eagle twice ; Ajax once ; best time 5. IT — 5.21, very 

 good for a young mare, in her second season. She was beaten 

 three times, by Lady Suffolk, by Kipton — whose only victory 

 was at her expense — and by Lady Moscow, of whom she was in 

 after time a constant and worthy rival. 



Jack Rossiter won nothing, and was beaten by Jane Redtop, 

 and Lady Jane, in very good time for a green horse, and with 

 gain, rather than with loss of credit. 



Black Hawk, on the contrary, won on his first appearance, 

 beating in a 250 lb. wagon, Jenny Lind, in a skeleton wagon, 

 mile heats, taking the first and last, in 2.40 — 2.38, and 2.43. 

 He afterward received forfeit from the same mare, for the best 

 three in five of mile heats. 



Of the first event, the editor of the New York Turf Register 

 observes, "taking into consideration that Black Hawk never 

 trotted before, we think it will be conceded that his perform- 

 ance is the most extraordinary sporting event of the season. 

 He is but nine years old, and will improve." 



This year Willard Reed made some extraordinary tandem- 

 driving over the Union Course against time. He was backed to 

 trot Grey Harry and Betsey Baker a mile in 2 m. 50s. Reed to 

 have two trials. 



He did the distance, at the first trial, in 2.41f , but the mare, 

 who was the slower of the two, having broken up and galloped 

 about two hundred yards, before Grey Harry could be pulled 

 back to her ; the judges ordered a second trial, although it was 

 admitted that Reed had lost no time in bringing her down to 

 her work. 



On the second trial, Reed drove them "as if for a man's life," 

 and they trotted the mile, without a break, in 2.43|. They 

 made the first quarter in 42^ sec, and the first half-mile in 1.22, 

 the best time, by all odds, on record. 



The only long-distance match of this year was a match that 

 Fi-ancis Dufty's Grey Marshall would trot 17 miles in harness in 



