208 THE HOKSE. 



I am not sure that, in lier nineteenth year, this may not be 

 quoted as the greatest feat slie ever accomplished. The speed of 

 her foot had departed with her youth ; but the ability to stay 

 the distance, and come again for ever, with a scarcely dimin- 

 ished stroke, seemed to last in for ever. 



Her old owner, through all her triumphs, David Bryan, died 

 in New Orleans in 1851 ; and whatever judges, or would-be 

 judges, may say of his inability, want of temper, and harshness 

 to the old gray, she clearly never was herself again, he gone. 



In 1853 she was purchased by Mr. Hill, of Bridport, in 

 whose ownership she died, and has left no heir or heiress to her 

 honors. 



Indeed, it is hardly probable, after such sevei-e and long- 

 protracted exertions, that had she proved fruitful, the progeny 

 would have been of much accoimt. 



I am exceedingly glad to present to my readers a very per- 

 fect likeness and fine engraving of this unrivalled animal. 



I call her unrivalled, because although her time has been 

 beaten, I, like my friend " Observer," have always regarded 

 time, alone, as a most insufficient and fallacious test of the pow- 

 ers of the horse ; and I, for one, shall certainly not transfer my 

 allegiance to the new queen. Flora, until she shall have proved 

 her right, not by the brilliant spurts of a few, brief, gloi-ious sea- 

 sons, but by the long-continued train of still increasing triumphs, 

 wdiich render the name of Lady Suffolk tlie pride of the trotting 

 turf of America. 



The accompanying portrait, which is indisputably the best 

 likeness of the mare I have ever seen, has for its basis a litho- 

 graph by the late lamented Robert Clarke, who, for the power 

 of catching and committing to paper the peculiar action, style 

 of going and salient characteristics of any horse, while in mo- 

 tion, on the trot especially, has scarcely been equalled. 



He was somewhat deficient, however, in anatomical knowl- 

 edge ; and had a habit, which amounted, in his works, to an 

 absolute mannerism, of representing his animals with under- 

 sized Kmbs. I have scarcely seen a painting of his wdiich has 

 not this defect, more or less ; and I have seen many in which it 

 amounts to a deformity equal almost to that of the huge-lioaded 

 pigmy-bodied men of the new style of caricatures, in which it 



