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wonderful courage which never yielded to any- 

 thing. She was second in both heats to that 

 very filly Trifle that was afterward to give her 

 such a task in the five-heat race of her career. But 

 mark this thing about Black Maria ; that in the 

 last heat of this Baltimore race she was running 

 the twentieth mile which she had compassed 

 within four days, and she did that mile over the 

 old-fashioned slow track, that was itself extra 

 heavy from rains, in 1.53! 



As a six-year-old Black Maria won a race of 

 four-mile heats in straight heats, another at three- 

 mile heats, taking the last two, and then ran her 

 greatest race in that contest which required twenty 

 miles of running to decide. 



She flashed back in the spring at seven years 

 old, and ran a race of three heats at three miles 

 each, and in the third heat she did the distance 

 in 5.48, a time which had not been equalled by 

 any other long-distance animal. That was also 

 the old mare's first appearance since her race of 

 twenty miles in the previous October. 



She continued her career on the turf, winning 

 at all distances from two-mile heats to four-mile 

 heats, up to the time when she was nine years 

 old. Her last race was run in 1835, at four-mile 



