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miles 5.03, and one mile 2.33J. She only trotted six races in 

 1848, having met with an accident in the middle of the season, 

 when she was winning races right along. 



In 1849 she trotted nineteen races and captured twelve of 

 them, beating Gray Eagle, Mac, and Lady Sutton each twice ; 

 Pelham five times, the famous twenty-miler, Trustee, four 

 times; Black Hawk, Gray Trouble, Ploughboy, and others. 

 She reduced her record this season to 2.26 under the saddle, 

 which was the world's record at that time. 



In 1850 she beat Lady Moscow six times at one, two, and 

 three miles ; Jack Rossiter three times, Hector once and in har- 

 ness once, and beat James K. Polk, the pacer, to wagon. 



In 1851 she was moderately successful. In 1852, when 

 nineteen years old, she trotted twelve races. In 1853, when 

 twenty years old, she entered into two races, but was defeated 

 in both, thus ending the turf career of one of the best of 

 our old-time trotters, after appearing on the American trotting 

 turf every season for fifteen years. 



Lady Suffolk died at Bridgeport, Vt., on March 7, 1855, at 

 twenty-two years of age. 



LADY SUFFOLK. 

 In Mernoriam. 



For fifteen years the virgin queen 



And mistress of the turf ; 

 Most nobly did she win the name 



As queen of trotting course. 



Amid the pouring of the sweat 



And flying of the fur, 

 She never quailed beneath the whip 



Or fluttered at the spur.* 



As freely flowed her purple life 



She mutely bore the pain ; 

 Winner of the hard-fought strife, 



This foal of Dusky Jane. 



* She had a very cruel master, who lashed and spurred her most shamefully 

 in her races. 



