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great five-mile race which came off on the Centreville Course 

 in the fall of 1841. That same year she beat Dutchman on the 

 Hunting Park Course, Philadelphia, trotting three miles in 7 m. 

 40 s. The year before, the same horse had beaten her easily in 

 7 m. 51 s. She had steadily improved from the time of her first 

 appearance, although she had been driven in races of two and 

 three miles every season, until it was a cause of surprise that her 

 legs were strong enough to bear her up at all. Anything of less 

 steel-like fibre would have given way, and the trotting-turf been 

 deprived of one of its greatest ornaments. 



In 1842 she beat Ripton in a two-mile race, in harness, in 5 m. 

 10 s., and 5 m. 15 s. This was on the 7th of May. On the 1st 

 of August Ripton turned the tables by beating her in 5 m. 6 s., and 

 5 m. 22 s. This Ripton was a handsome bay, small, but a trotter 

 of peculiar smoothness and beauty. He had many contests with 

 Lady Suffolk, and the record shows that he beat her oftener than 

 he was beaten. Even as late as this year, 1842, most of the races 

 were of two and three miles, and in all such races it is important 

 to husband the power of the horse as much as possible; conse- 

 quently the full speed is very seldom called out, but a gait is 

 aimed at which can be maintained to the end of a long race. For 

 this reason, horses of moderate speed and great endurance may 

 beat, in such races, far faster trotters. Although Lady Suffolk 

 had the hardiest bottom and highest courage, she was a long 

 strider, and calculated to put forth all her strength in a great 

 effort, rather than expend it gradually in a moderate effort long 

 continued. In spite of this, such was her enduring power, that, 

 in 1837, she distanced the pacer James K. Polk, the first heat of 

 a two-mile race in 5 m. 3 s. But her greatest performance was 

 in the season of 1849. Hiram Woodruff says : " This arduous 

 season began at the Union Course on the 21st of May. Lady 

 Suffolk and Lady Moscow trotted mile heats, Moscow winning in 

 four heats. Lady Suffolk then went Down East, and trotted three 

 races at Providence, Rhode Island. From there she went to 

 Boston, and on the 14th of June she trotted on the Cambridge 

 Course with Mac, on which occasion she made the fastest heat 

 she ever trotted. The first heat was won by Mac in 2m. 31 s. 

 The Lady won the second in 2 m. 26 s." This was her greatest 

 performance. It raised her to the highest place among trotting 

 horses, and gave her a world-wide fame, which has endured to the 

 present day. She afterwards trotted with Jack Rossiter, Lady 

 Sutton, Trustee, Long Island Black Hawk, Gray Trouble, and Gray 

 Eagle, all horses of the very first class, and remained on the 

 turf until 1853, doing an immense amount of work every season, 

 maintaining her great reputation both for speed and endurance 

 until she passed into honorable retirement. 



