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6th, against Dutchman, and was beaten. Two days afterwards 

 Dutchman again beat her over the same course in three-mile 

 heats. 



In less than a week after these two severe races she beat 

 Celeste and Napoleon on the Centerville course, Long Island, in 

 harness, 5.26, 5.33, and 5.32. 



June 30th, on the same track, she beat Bonaparte easily, 

 four-mile heats, in 11.15 and 11.58. Her next race was with 

 Aaron Burr, two-mile heats at the Beacon course, September 

 21st, when she beat him in 5.22, 5.21, and 5.35 ; and, three days 

 later, on the same course, she beat Dutchman, two-mile heats 

 under saddle, in 4.59 and 5.03£. 



The opening of the season of 1841 found the little gray 

 mare again at the Centerville course, where she, on the 4th day 

 of May, beat Confidence and Washington, two-mile heats, in 

 5.13J and 5.41. This was quite a successful season for the gray 

 lady, and during it she beat such good ones of that period as 

 Confidence, "Washington, Dutchman, Bipton, Awful, and 

 Oneida Chief. 



The next . two seasons were generally unsuccessful, which 

 was universally attributed to the obstinacy and incompetency 

 of her owner and driver, David Bryant, a very hard master, 

 who used her very cruelly, it is said. It is thought that had 

 she been handled by such a competent trainer and driver as 

 Hiram Woodruff that her defeats throughout her whole career 

 would have been few and far between. 



In 1844 she was very successful, beating such good ones as 

 Dutchman, Bipton, Washington, Americus, and Columbus. 



In 1845 she won four races and lost four. In 1846 she only 

 won two out of five traces. In 1847, when in her fifteenth year, 

 she bore away the palm from all her competitors, among which 

 were Moscow, Lady Sutton, Ripton, as trotters, and the pacers 

 were James K. Bolk and Roanoke. She won eight races and 

 lost but one this season, and her performances were at three, two, 

 and one-mile heats, under saddle, in harness, and to wagons. 



Her fastest time for three miles this season was 7.56, two 



