48 



Time — 1st heat, 3 m. 48 sec. •, 2d heat, 3 m. 52 sec. ; 3d heat, 3 m. 

 49 sec. ; 4th heat, 3 m. 49 sec. 



Same day — Second Race. — Jockey Chib Purse. — 2 mile heats ; was 

 won by Mr. Atcheson's ch. f. Lady Adams, beating Mr. Brown's Lofty, 

 and Mr. Hammond's b. f. Black-eyed Susan (distanced). 



Saturday, Feb 27 — Handicap Race, $368. — 3 mile heats. — Col. 

 Singleton's b. m. Za(/y q/" the Lake beat Mr. Harrison's Lady Lightfoot, 

 Mr. Brown's Lady Jane Grey, and Col. Wynn's Polly Hopkins. Lady 

 of the Lake won the first and third heats; Lady Lightfoot the second 

 heat. Polly Hopkins was placed second in the first heat, but was im- 

 mediately drawn. Time — 1st heat, 5 m. 44-^ sec ; 2d heat, 6 m. ; 3d 

 heat, 5 m. 54 sec. 



In a second Race, on the same day, for a purse given by the Club, 2 

 mile heats, Mr. Atcheson's ch. f. Lady Adams beat Mr. Brown's b. f. 

 Sally Melville. 



The Gold Cup which was won by Col. Singleton in 1828, with his ch. 

 f. Scdly Taylor, having remained in his possession three successive 

 seasons unchallenged, his property in it, according to the original con 

 ditions, this year , became complete. 



1831 Few oflicial statements of our Races (" few and far between"), 



and they very imperfect, had been preserved by our Club previous to the 

 present year, 1831. The different events, which are recorded above, 

 from 1734 to 1831, nearly a century, have by great diligence been 

 carefully collected from the public journals of the last century, on file 

 in the archives of the (iity and State — from old letters, and manuscripts, 

 and memoranda made at the time by the owners or trainers of many 

 of the horses, and which have been kindly furnished to the writer, by 

 " gentlemen of the olden time," or their descendants : in truth, all the 

 best and highest sources to which reference could be had, have been 

 made available, so as to leave no doubt that all that has been set down, 

 is of unquestionable accuracy — " good authority" for the future ! 



This labour was commenced, fortunately, before all the good old 

 stock of Carolina Turfmen had passed away from the scenes of their 

 triumphs — from " the places that knew them once, but now know them 

 no more." If it had been deferred to a later period, the probability is, 

 no one would have been willing to undertake it. With the kindest 

 disposition to help the writer, manifested by every one, who has either 

 been consulted or written to on the subject, he confesses, he has been 

 from time to time a good deal in the dark up to this point (1831), and 

 had to grope his way along with much caution and trouble — many of 



